Secrets of Ice
Intermediate - Secondary LIVE VIDEO

This fascinating program will challenge your students to think about the problems of global warming and industrial pollution. Ice is the physical memory of the Canadian Arctic landscape, recording everything that has happened there. Secrets of Ice follows two scientists as they investigate the Arctic ice.

Fritz Koerner - on Agassiz Ice Cap on Ellesmere Island, less than a thousand kilometres from the North Pole - is exploring down through a thousand layers of the ice cap for clues to changes in the earth's climate. However, he unexpectedly discovers the reasons for the demise of the ill-fated Franklin expedition mounted by the British in the 19th century.

Barry Hargraves searches for pollutants in the food chain deep beneath the Arctic ice cap - a difficult task, for the ice cap is in constant motion, fracturing and breaking into a gigantic jigsaw puzzle. Luckily, Nature herself provides a solution.

The Canadian Arctic provides breathtaking views of animal and marine life that are both fragile and interdependent. PCB contaminants are now concentrated at the top of the food chain and are threatening the lives of the Inuit. 25 min

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