Arctic Circle

Arctic Expedition.

She has finally reached the Arctic.

Polar bears live in the Arctic.

Arctic sea ice is also shrinking

Let's talk about the Arctic first.

Ollantaytambo, Peru, and Arctic Village, Alaska.

They fly south from the arctic region.

They set out on an arctic expedition.

And, of course, Arctic communities are toast.

We can now go to the Arctic.

And then something about an Arctic Expedition.

Now let's go up to the Arctic Circle.

And now let's think about the Arctic Circle.

The Arctic is the area round the North Pole.

I really, really wanted to go to the Arctic.

Have you heard of a bird called the Arctic Tern?

Cape Dezhnev is 30 miles south of the Arctic Circle.

This is out at whale camp, on the Arctic Ocean.

Second, remember that the Arctic is really a frozen ocean.

We're finding more and more dead bears in the Arctic.

These ringed seals, these are the fatsicles of the Arctic.

An ice free Arctic Ocean may happen in this century.

Let me go to some point in the Arctic Circle.

So, let's say I'm sitting here in the Arctic Circle.

Michiko talks as if she had been to the Arctic herself.

Michiko talks as if she had been to the Arctic herself.

The military of the Arctic nations is taking it really seriously.

An iceberg from the Arctic floated as far south as Bermuda.

Known as the arctic unicorn because of their strange spottled tusks.

longwall mining, fracking, tar sands, tar shale, deep ocean Arctic drilling.

And things go white as we move out onto the Arctic Ocean.

Already, around the Arctic Circle this is a famous village in Alaska.

The thickness of the Arctic decreased more than 40 percent since 1960.

This is Daniel he's one of our students in Arctic Village, Alaska.

like methane mass expulsion, which appears to be occurring in the Arctic...

This cold, frigid arctic air, this big mass out of the north.

A few months later they return to their breeding grounds in the Arctic.

There is a great race on for energy resources under the Arctic seabed.

But seven years ago, I went to the Arctic for the first time.

Arctic exploration, you know, people like Magellan, Amundsen, Shackleton, you see Franklin down there,

The Arctic region consists of a vast, ice covered ocean surrounded by treeless permafrost.

This is the foundation of the whole food chain in the Arctic, right here.

They breed in the High Arctic, and they winter down in southern South America.

But they concentrate in the Gulf and then fan out all across the Arctic.