• Climate change brings Arctic whole new way of life Climate change is altering more than the landscape in the arctic it’s bringing new jobs and progress to an area steeped in tradition, and a culture characterized by hunting and trapping.
  • Project Chariot planned to use nuclear warheads to create port in Alaska In the late 1950’s, the U.S. government planned to develop a deep-water port off the far northwestern corner of Alaska. The plans moved forward, despite the fact the waters in the region are frozen solid most of the year.
  • Rising temperatures lead to melting permafrost As global leaders meet to discuss climate change, a group of researchers in the Arctic are focusing on permafrost. Permafrost is exactly what it sounds like: ground that’s permanently frozen. But a tiny uptick in temperatures is fueling concern that thawing earth could lead to engineering disasters and worsen global warming.
  • Climate change and its effect on a way of life in Alaska Climate change is having a dramatic effect on the people who have carved out a way of life in the harsh region. It’s also threatening one of their most cherished practices, whaling.
  • CCTV America’s ‘On Thin Ice’ screens at National Press Club The people of the Arctic are among the first on Earth to experience the direct impacts of global warming, and it was their compelling stories that prompted CCTV America to produce a new documentary about the repercussions of climate change on the people, land, and wildlife of the Arctic.
  • Where do indigenous people live in the Arctic? There are only about 100,000 indigenous people that live within the Arctic Circle in Alaska and in Canada, comprising 2.5 percent of the 4 million people that live in the Arctic worldwide, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s Arctic Research Program.
  • On Thin Ice: A closer look at the story CCTV America’s Sean Callebs spent three months in the arctic to explore how this harsh environment is warming at rapid rates.
  • The Arctic is a bad place to get stuck in the snow Part of producing these stories involved a lot of road miles. Sean and Andrew learned the hard way to be careful on picking their roads.
  • Permafrost and sea ice are canaries in the coal mine Our first stop during our months of reporting on climate change in the high north, wasn’t in the Arctic – but it was an important visit.  Permafrost is becoming more and more critical to greenhouse gases filtering into the atmosphere. We went to the permafrost research tunnel in Fairbanks, Alaska to learn more.
  • Sampling the food of the Arctic One thing you learn quickly when visiting small Arctic indigenous communities, is how important subsistence hunting is to the residents.
  • Watch a sneak peek of ‘On Thin Ice’ “On Thin Ice: The People of the North” is a CCTV America documentary production premiering this week.
  • Behind the lens Covering the complex and controversial topic of global warming can be a tall task. Even when reporting from a part of the world that has seen the most dramatic effects of climate change, filming day-to-day in the arctic is a challenge on many levels.
  • Learning to drive a dog sled the hard way OK, the animals are sled dogs. Now, is the contraption they drag around called a dog sled?