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https://media.greenpeace.org/asset-management/27MZIFVKRB58
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Keywords
Climate (campaign title)
Climate change
Climate change impacts
Educational and research equipment
Ice
Icescapes
KWCI (GPI)
Polar bears
Swimming
Polar Bears
Various shots of polar bears on ice floes and in the water close to the Arctic Sunrise. Polar bears are suprisingly agile and also very strong swimmers, they are able to negotiate the mixed terrain of solid sea ice and broken floes of ice, occasionally swimming from one floe to the next. In completely open water, or in an environment free of sea ice, however, polar bears cannot survive for very long; they are entirely dependent on sea ice from which to hunt from. At one point, one polar bear becomes fascinated with a 'reference sphere' used by an architect who was collaborating with scientists working on Arctic sea ice. The cub and its mother stopped science work prematurely when they came by the ship which was moored to an ice floe. While the researchers watched from the safety of the ship the cub proceeded to play with the ball on a stick, pawing it biting it and trying to pull it from the ground. Afterwards the work accessing Arctic sea ice thickness and characteristics continued.
Unique identifier:
GP04356
Type:
Video
Shoot date:
04/09/2011
Locations:
Arctic
,
Arctic Ocean
,
Norway
Credit line:
© Greenpeace
Duration:
3m47s
Audio format:
Natural
Ranking:
★★★★★★★ (A)
Containers
Shoot:
Arctic Sunrise Expedition to Svalbard
Leading independent ice scientists from the University of Cambridge joined the Greenpeace ice breaker Arctic Sunrise on an expedition to test Arctic
sea ice thickness, in a year that could mark the lowest sea ice minimum on record. Temperature rise in the Arctic is among the fastest on Earth due to emissions of carbon dioxide from oil, coal and gas. As climate change causes the Arctic’s sea ice cover to recede, the ice’s cooling effect caused by its reflecting solar radiation back into space is reduced, causing temperatures to rise even faster.
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