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dogs fall into the cracks. Four people have lost their lives because of the melting
It is also a dangerous time for the polar bears hunting on glaciers that flowed into the river. The people that
the ice. The melting ice makes it all the more difficult for survived have left their homes or deserted their lives as
them to hunt. hunters and have become fishermen.
Episode2: The Arctic without Ice Episode3: Thawing Ice, Disappearing Tundra
Polar bears are starving for more than a month September - a month when summer turns to autumn
compared to the past because of the longer summers and the nature of the Arctic starts to rotate. The caribou
and the delayed freezing of ice. The starving polar bears are on the move in huge herds.
scavenge through the village’s trash cans for food. However, the longer summers, the melting permafrost
The melting ice means that very soon, the hunters of the and the swampy tundra due to global warming are
ice kingdom will lose their hunting ground. Filmed once changing the migration path and period of the caribou.
in 1996, Illorsuit, a village in the mid region of Greenland The caribou are wandering, having lost their way in the
was visited again. The climate change in the past 12 wetlands.
years have altered the villagers’ way of life. The Inuit who have lived by hunting caribou are also
facing a challenge.