- Annual reindeer crossing in Canada’s Northwest Territories The changing climate is posing challenges for indigenous peoples living north of the Arctic Circle but it’s not changing some of their long-held traditions.
- Builders of Canada’s ice road hope to improve economic opportunity The remoteness of the Arctic region can be costly and stunt economic opportunities, a new path north from Canada is currently being built to aid trade, but not everyone agrees that it’s a road to progress. CCTV America’s Sean Callebs reports, in his latest installment of our series: On Thin Ice.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
A documentary by CCTV America.