Soon the Arctic will be ice-free in summer. While many are concerned about the consequences for the global climate, countries like Russia and the US, as well as China and Canada see an ice-free Arctic as an opportunity, offering everything from new trade routes to mineral resources and tourism.
In two episodes, this documentary reports on a region of the world that is changing dramatically because of climate change, affecting the lives of the people who make their home in the Arctic. The film team experiences first-hand what it means to live at the mercy of the forces of nature in this inhospitable region, which makes for an adventurous and frightening journey.
In the first part of the documentary, they fly low over the fascinating icy landscape of Greenland, filming the fjords and mighty glaciers of the loneliest places in the world. The current Arctic thaw, however, is felt far beyond this lovely, isolated place. Progressing faster here than in the rest of the world, climate change is moving the Arctic into the focus of global politics. Littoral states and world powers are fighting for influence here. At the heart of their interest: access to mineral resources and new transport routes. Because, as the ice melts, new, shorter shipping routes are opening up. Is a new conflict looming at the North Pole?
And how do the people in the far north experience the change in their environment? The film team travels through the northern reaches of the US, Canada, Greenland, Norway and Russia. The journalists experience the wonder of nature in these regions and meet people who have adapted over centuries to life in these cold, inhospitable realms. Now, they face a new struggle, as global power players swoop in.
In Alaska, the camera team meets fishermen who have been driven from American fishing grounds near the Bering Strait by Russian fighter planes and warships. The fishermen are demanding that their government provide a greater military presence in the region to protect their interests.
The region has been the scene of a long-term dispute over water ownership. For the US, the Northwest Passage counts as international waters, while Canada considers it national territory. The conflict over the Arctic could soon escalate. Because scientists are certain: In a few decades, the Arctic will be ice-free in summer.
[Part 2 will be uploaded next week.]
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I love the transformer music
Americans and Canadians using the old legend of the Russian bogeymen to justify the militarization of a region that should have been left untouched. Where do they intend to stop? Far within Russia's territory, no doubt.
The "Great Waves of Change" are here.
23:00 is that the song from Transformers?
Another great DW doc!!
wonderful work DW…. save the planet. stop poisoning the world. end the wars!
For those who doubt global warming… I have an experiment for you. Put a clear box outside in the sun with a thermometer inside. Fill it will regular air.
Put another box on the side of it and fill it with C02.
Compare temperatures after.
Who cares! If all the ice melts, do you what that means? It's LITERALLY FREE REAL ESTATE LMAO!!!!!!!!
Russians fighters don't respect someone territory they frequently trespass someone territory in Baltic like Poland Estonia even there was an accident that Turkish shot Russian fighter because they don't respect command and border.They deserved their fate what has happened in Ukraine it shows how Russia is weak
Waht BS. Lived in Alaska for the past 60 years. The last 2 years have set records for extreme cold
Plant some trees there ey
It’s sad to see how humans are fishing out the oceans. The fish aren’t migrating north. They are disappearing as they are being completed fished out.
26 dec 2022 It's -53.5 C, -64.3 F in the middle of Greenland.
37:30 Lets paint earth white.
sounds like to me we took all our fish cause they literally take 3millions dollars worth of fish per day. So now we start coming after others fish And then we will make them look bad.
SAMs on fishing boats? Airplanes crash in bad weather…
Thanks a billion dollar busineess
good
Nuuk is 18F this afternoon. Greenland is NOT melting. The old Dew Line radar stations are being consumed by the ADVANCING ice. Watch "Glacier Girl". In 50 years since they crashed in WW2, the plane was over 250 feet UNDER the ice, NOT sitting on top of a melting ice sheet. AGW bureaucrats dependent on promoting the myth will lose their jobs if we come to reality. The radar monster and these planes SHOULD have been sitting on top of melting ice.
More Polar bears up there than ever before. Climate change nonsense is mostly a scam. The climate has always changed, for billions of years. If man can't even change the local weather, what makes you think we can affect the whole climate?
Stop spreading PROPAGANDA. Arctic ice always melts. You spread lies lies lies. Climate is perfectly normal as it always is
absolute nonsense
The biggest threat is from more people eating meat. It is the end of the human race. Just hope some other animals will survive our greed and ignorance
where is part 2?
appallingly eye opener!!!
Thank You DW for opening our eyes and minds by taking us to the places around the globe, where we most of us can't even imagine to visit on our own resources, really we cannot thank you enough indeed for DW's dedicated services for humankind! I am waiting impatiently for 2nd part of the series.
We bought all of Alaska (426 million acres) for 7.2 million dollars. Lol. There are ranches that are only thousands of acres that sell for more than that today. I'd say Alaska was a really good deal. 😅😂🤣
Do WATCH COWSPIRACY AND BEFORE THE FLOOD FOR REAL REASONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE 🙏
There is little that is more admirable than a captain of a ship that started out as an ordinary deck hand. It was the same with Ernest McSorely of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Even from the video I am utterly in awe and humbled by the sheer power and majesty of nature. I hope this pristine land can continue to remain wild and free.
Reported for false information
Don't expect our government to help you in any way whatsoever.
Gòod work guys,part two icome through big love from +254
great doc
Deutsche Vella, thank you all.
More lies from the alarmist propaganda machine. The artic pretty much has the same amount of ice as it did in the 1940's. They use 1970's because it was the time the ice had advanced the most.