The Arctic Circle On Thin Ice /
For thousands of years, the only threat to polar bears came from humans. Nothing has changed-except now it is fossil fuel consumption, not spears and guns, that pushes Ursus maritimus toward extinction. Depicting the hapless species as the proverbial canary in a coal mine, this program studies the i...
| Other Authors: | Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm), Infobase., National Film Board of Canada. |
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York, N.Y. :
Infobase,
[2010], c2009.
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| Physical Description: |
1 streaming video file (42 min.) : sd., col., digital file. |
| Series: |
Artic circle.
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| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Global Warming and Arctic Ice (2:39)
- Glacial Melt Water (5:38)
- Glacial Bedrock (1:58)
- Polar Bears: Threatened Species (4:26)
- Changes in Polar Bear Behavior (4:11)
- Effects of Global Warming (2:24)
- Arctic Food Chain Threatened (2:09)
- World Scientists at North Pole (5:15)
- Polar Bear Monitors (1:46)
- Shrinking Arctic Ice Cap (4:25)
- Fate of the Polar Bear (5:29)
- Credits: The Arctic Circle: On Thin Ice (0:49)