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apple's last stop. breathtakingly beautiful get brutal. over the generations the people who live here have learned how to survive in this inhospitable landscape. we travel through the arctic. to

eastern siberia. we want to learn how peoples lives a changing in this remote part of the world. cruising through the arctic ocean at 20 knots an hour. we're aboard the sapphire princess one of the big cruise ships now touring the arctic with increasing frequency and actiq adventure has never been more comfortable provided your willing to share the experience with many others. just before 7 am we cross into the arctic circle and see its rugged nature without being exposed to it as adventures

go it's arctic light. that will soon change why did you get up so early in the morning to go to jail. did you come up with the gem yeah right i didn't realize it was going to look like this and it's fantastic being out here it's inspirational it really helps you to get closer to nature and that's a good thing i think if people thought more about that they wouldn't be tossing their garbage around and driving big s.u.v.s or my wife or see them all the lights but i'll be. going to support that. doesn't mean to say yes. i will she cut. the arctic landscape is hosh in full getting yet it's one of the most fragile ecosystems on the planet.

the within the far north is temperamental the ship with its 18 dead stops to rock from side to side. the swimming pool is transformed into a way for. the low death that they still cooking up a storm due to the rough weather we've lost our appetites but we still meet with stephen reynolds these shows are still around to start maine with a twinkle in his eye he says a few guests who likely made the shift from one name forward to just one thing we need to make you know a lot of persons i should. have real i would have a child so that's. good yeah i'm happy with that acted cuisines not what the passage just want general of. the british small kids that we've just been they still want to come to their roast beef yorkshire pudding. or they're

trying to get my students. the dance halls and want to travel in style. meet the couple from stroll through an empty lives taken cruising speed is this is their 23rd doesn't bother them that this kind of holiday is increasingly viewed as environmentally unfriendly you know life is a compromise on the one hand you want to see places on the other there are environmental problems but this makes the region more popular so people see how it's changing on it's important the region becomes better known depicts but that's only possible with lots of people can visit on. the cruise ship industry is enticed in people to come to the arctic while it's still intact. it ships are bringing guests to ever move remote locations to ensure that there's booming business doesn't fall victim to environmental misgivings companies are trying to go green on

board trash is separated for recycling and some ships are now running on liquefied petroleum gas instead of heavy crude oil or marine diesel fuel. traveling through these icy waters poses particular dangers captain paolo rivera tells us so he and his crew have gone through special navigational training. for the hordes of navigation i see more for. the up here yet not that we don't have a lot of everything eyes but they are places where that is are directing us so we have to be careful because. it's like. a door that float. small or dollars it can actually damage the propellers. and if we go into quite a i condensation concentration of this ship itself we can actually dunnage the hull unless it's

a ship which is built for the at the which is not it is for normal icy conditions but not very. and. this evening we catch a glimpse of one of the arctic's most fleeting attractions. the northern lights. you were aboard alice once inspired belief in the supernatural now it's something to wrists film and post on social media. we leave the ships warm comfort zone from out so we continue on to the spa

archipelago. insomuch huge cruise ships come here carrying thousands of passengers. in the off season smallish ships docked here not far from the most pole. it's no longer just well equipped explorers who adventure in this close to the north pole. the number of tourists has doubled over the last decade each year 70000 visitors descend on long island a town of some 3000 residents. for the locals to reason has become a reliable source of revenue now that mining is in decline still it has its challenges. style bad search and rescue team said the number of distress calls has increased

along with people's expectations we accompany the a risky change on a training mission. wearing a. to suit is mandatory should be fooled into the icy cold water it would keep us from getting hypothermia at least for a few minutes. slower hakan is in charge of the 2 pm a helicopter stationed. each of them can transport as many as 20 people in emergency. style body is an up to does it it's growing in the west there's more rain and less smart. with me but if you're such. a small sample of all the measures are getting smaller and we're treating. all the

temperature. there's. an average. the captain of this expedition vessel has agreed to take pot in the rescue makes the sourness. as has our camera man who's now being lowered on a rug. the ship's crew also takes cause when it's the size they know the importance of such maneuvers in emergency. after little refreshment it's back to work here.

if she gets in trouble. snorers group rescues the passengers one by one by helicopter and. once they've all been evacuated there's still another problem to deal with a ship wrecked full of diesel stranded in an extremely fragile ecosystem. to give guests an unforgettable experience snorer says some captains take big risks in this dangerous region the rescuers must cover vast distances he finds the huge cruise ships most problematic the thing is that we should always be able to help but it might take a lot longer time than the than we want to so it's all a matter of it's a bit harsh to say but it's a matter of getting the rescue done before people die so if we start to say that we're going to rescue a ship with 7000 people on board it might take weeks. that

people here say that tourism needs to be steered in the right direction to ensure that speil bad spectacular nature is protected. and that all visitors return home safely. that. parliament. has sovereignty of a spouse but the archipelago is a visa free zone russia has an arctic outpost here in balance book to reach it we must take about. there's not a single road leading to balance book. this sign in cyrillic is a reminder of bygone times our goal communism the soviet spiritual geopolitics

has long spoken another language. valarie comes from eastern ukraine a region plagued by divisions in a way backed by progress forces he works on smile bought for state and russian coal company. my wife stayed at home. i'm here alone there aren't any jobs for women here they can't earn much money here. mining coal is hardly profitable anymore but prospectors a drawn by other natural resources. it's believed there are huge oil and gas reserves of small parts coasts norway and russia disagree on who they belong to.

russia's consul general on style bad service team sergey pushkin says his country has a good neighborly relationship with nato member norway such consider 3 times are rare in russian diplomacy these days pushkin says the arctic climate is too harsh for conflicts that the friendship creates short lived when it comes to oil or educate them with but he will do you have any idea what he just office that would generate in the billions he's got the everything here will turn to gold if the russian interpretation is applied astutely that's why we haven't been able to come to an agreement with all we germans about this is once an oil or gas field as found here national legal disputes will certainly start a huge its border. with a few notable miles away in the barents sea russia's stages military maneuvers that fuels worries here that worse things than legal action could happen.

even if here on the hill side they invoke world peace. to find out what happens. to a remote northern town when fossil fuel deposits are found just off shore we pay a visit to hammerfest. in winter noise far north is plunged into darkness for 2 long months. so for a long time people were living in droves. but then along came sto white that's what they call the natural gas field off the coast from hammerfest since 2007 snow white has been a fairy tale dream come true for the town's finances and the high wages paid have attracted many skilled workers. this is a good morning for. her little daughter afa doesn't make

a fuss when she's dropped off at daycare afterwards and i head straight to the office her partner is currently working off shore as always in 2 week long stints. sometimes you have a meeting that you can't miss and then you really have a challenge. balancing motherhood with a career in ecuador norway state and energy company is no easy feat but it's not just a question of time but of ideology too she drives a hybrid car avoids plastic and recycles her waste protecting the environment is important to her as it is to most norwegians yet she works for a company that makes its money from extracting fossil fuels. the 21 year old shows us there's no contradiction there. at this plant ecuador liquefies natural gas and puts it into tanks it also operates

a pilot project. the firm separates the c o 2 from the natural gas. and pumps it back into the ocean floor this process reduces the amount of harmful greenhouse gases making their way into the atmosphere norway site such projects as proof of its green credentials yet it continues to award exploration drilling licenses in the arctic ocean and its finances count on petro dollars environmental activists call bat hypocritical. and it considers their criticism unfounded yet she's used to having to justify working for the industry people might think that you would be a hypocrite if you think about the climate crisis and things still work in the industry but. i think that my company is

a place very grow. better faster. and then she was found in norway's profitable fossil fuel extraction wouldn't change anything alice's customers would just buy their gas elsewhere and that wouldn't benefit the climate at all her mother has always supported her choice. she has always been a tough. c.e.o. she was. pointing out that. i want to work in that company this is my dream. norwegians a serious about protecting the environment however they are unwilling to give up selling oil and gas any time soon because that's what's made norway into one of the richest countries worldwide.

we continue our journey eastwards from hammerfest above an income vote on the amount peninsula in the language of the indigenous minutes people means the end of the world but now the peninsula is the son of one of russia's largest economic projects. i. would just in time to witness them tapping and new gas source russian energy giant gazprom has developed above a new gas field in record time. so i guess a lunch of one gas perms best welder title in 2015 is accustomed to middle high and heat but here he must deal with other elements to recover wind and prost sometimes it's minus 15 degrees celsius and those temperatures you try not to

work outside work but sometimes there's an accident and you have to go out and work whether you want to or not it was the. gas promise created a small town for $3000.00 workers in this depleted part of siberia we're only allowed to visit after receiving special permission from the state owned russian company he took in weeks. of e-mails and phone calls to get it the workers are made to feel like heroes they're saving their countries and to make the uptick lucrative . the surrogate tells us the main reason they're all here. on average workers in northern siberia own roughly double the amount compared to the rest of russia. here they work for 30 days straight then they have 50 days off so his family lives a day's journey away from bof a new york oval. but sometimes it's hard

especially at the end of your stand your morale sank and the monotony it gets to hear but you pay a price for everything in this life or so this is quite ok pls. the woman of the arctic is a boon for russia's economic ambitions the section of the northeast passage along russia's coast is now i spray more often making it easier to export siberian gas goods coming from china via boats can also reach europe. and russia plans to profit from this. the port of subash is pivotal to this strategy. but that doesn't leave much room for these nomadic reindeer herders in the shadow

of the drilling rigs they feel the loss of their homeland. roland emmerich we desisting the van a week her family they belong to the indigenous people known as the minutes they've lived here for centuries and a perfectly adapted to the inhospitable conditions in the arctic. retreat but now these nomadic people must contend with industrial so it's train tracks and streets but what you just wanted to. avoid drilling is underway for oil and gas on the net it's grazing land in danger in a traditions and culture. there was a how do you know you call this a fridge i call it a paria it stands on legs like this so we can stack meat fish and so forth up there just then they stay fresh for

a long time ago go to. the gas companies now have an minutes commissioner who acts as a mediator between heavy industry and the indigenous people it's good p.r. . hello nice to see you. is she yours. how many do you have. and sometimes the companies donate firewood or generated to the nets. grigory tells us this hardly compensates for what they have lost she joined us jill expansion. your church it's not good up up up but. why shouldn't they know. well much less they should help but we've surrendered so much of our land to the gas workers there's no longer enough grazing land not here nor

in the south. a source of food clothing and transportation. everything to the newness the vendor wieters of $200.00 of them. but times are changing the winter is getting warmer and the animals are growing thin as they have a hard time finding food just because nischelle without snow it's harder to keep the reindeer together they go off in all directions and groups break off from the herd which could be. the only way to those that will soon set off today when 2 grazing lands like every year but they root will be different determined more and more by the economic interests of the distant capital. we continue on out to convention from subash we travel to the settlement. in the middle of the arctic

summer. in the tundra it can reach 40 degrees celsius in the summer time yet with every step we take it gets cooler. and it smells of fish this despite its beauty this serves as a freezer for the local people. in subzero temperatures the remains of plants and dead animals from past eras don't decompose. the permafrost functions like an icy safe keeping of store of carbon locked up double the amount of carbon dioxide contained in the entire atmosphere. it's a ticking climatic timebomb. surrogate seam of things he knows how to keep it from going off. first and the russian

scientist was to show us the problem. he takes is for a ride on the column a river which is frozen over most of the year. we had a sand bank and a stock. so gay seem of a highly regarded member of the russian academy of sciences has to get out and push out cameramen steers. the after more than 4 hours we reach ice cliffs. but the sound of running water soon makes it clear siberia's permafrost is melting. just my crops reap we've just lost a few for sergeant years now say wake up ok heres a start. and part of us smile. you put on some

organisms start eating right away shad in doing so they transform carbon into carbon dioxide and our area there is so much of it that europe's climate will become unbearable if it all falls out. the speed at which the ground is releasing greenhouse gases is exceeding scientists most dire predictions. back to say gays planned. large creatures once roamed the mammoth step we collect evidence of that within minutes surrounded by schools of mosquitoes. the remains of bison courses and woolly mammoths used to depreciate where ever people appear unspoiled nature disappears from view in russia there are still a lot of open spaces if it's our duty to restore the natural variety that our forefathers witnessed individual in there you can. see more of it is

a scientist who wants to put his theories into practice so over 2 decades ago he began resurrecting the ice age with his pleistocene park together with his son nikita he chopped down trees implanted ancient grasses then they introduced yanks and bison the head of a task with a chute responsibility slowing the pace of climate change. you go what is it that we do have this week in december it's a culture that we blanket of snow insulates the ground from the cold so i'm going to go up with the horses on the hunt for grass dig around in the snow and tramp it down it with dogs when you're out with this allows the permafrost to phrase more thoroughly which protects it from falling out in the summer you use a shirt up by. the animal's back down the earth which is then able to store the cold better at least

that's the russians basic hypothesis. so gates seem of puts it more bluntly he calls his park a battlefield the fight between an ecosystem that's ill equipped to combat climate change and the ice age when he aims to resurrect. his experiment has drawn scientists from around the world including a german team that's examining the grasses the cmos have introduced they're trying to measure the levels of environmentally harmful gases here enough analysis and we assume the whole thing has a much more active circulatory system or exchange with the atmosphere that ultimately the ground absorbs more carbon due to more photosynthesis and the more active grasses that grow here. the cmos say the ground there plasticine park is already pertain in the cold better. the russian republic of south

that is sparsely populated in summer most of the people here live from fishing in winter they have muskrat and m. and. if you need and said they share a lifelong friendship you. know where would you go boy while you go you're. one of those sure. but they have different views on climate change. you know i don't believe it period nothing's changed everything's the same as i was with these. yet just months before the banks of the permafrost behind leonids house melted causing an entire lake to slide into the column a river but. there are billions of lakes like that where the water flows in or out that's normal. it is just it doesn't have any effect on nature. on my

life yes but not on nature. of says that long ago some people refused to believe the earth was round today some refused to believe climate change is happening or it simply doesn't both of them. russians don't fear global warming they'll say we're looking forward to it and preparing for war the europeans americans north africans and asians must sound the alarm among those already feeling the negative effects of global warming. to see months aim is to recreate the step landscape that existed in the arctic 12000 years ago i've returned to the ice age. they want to create an ecosystem that can regulate itself with its live or die eat or be eaten. my.

dogs are gifted you ultimately by that a lion or a tiger in here and say now this is your park but then i turn around and leave so and. that's a joke but i do want the system to become balanced resister yes that one i might go and expand on its own beyond our current borders. so i can even imagine that one day wooly mammoths will be grazing here alongside the bison. i don't want to leave my grandchildren and great grandchildren this sad northern landscape in which only mosquitoes feel at home. you know what i want to leave them the species rich nature of our forefathers. the kind of nature that stabilizes the climate and feeds millions of people you know.

so gay has often been accused of playing god but he argues it's just the opposite he's simply trying to restore what humanity began destroying centuries ago. the last stage of our journey takes us to chukotka in russian spy east. from the town of a niger we travel to van qur'an with a stop in a geeky not. according to syrian superstition you shouldn't photograph a helicopter just before takeoff but we can't resist taking a shot when no one's looking people here tell us the m.i.a. is russia's most reliable helicopter as passengers we can't help but feeling that it's rather reluctant to remain airborne still the view out the window quickly makes up for that.

after an hour and a half we land in a beacon not another storm is brewing so we change modes of transport from helicopter to triple axle jeep. will need the 6 wheel drive. north of the arctic circle the roads come to an end. we're traveling 200 kilometers as the crow flies our average speed is just 11 kilometers an hour. as the uppermost layer of the permafrost has thawed driving here is like taking

a much bath sometimes the riverbed isn't as bumpy as the road running alongside it . at some point we stopped counting the number of flat tires. there's just one settlement along the route at the winter quarters of these no magic reindeer herders our team attracts a fair bit of attention from all the good editors are. they really receive visitors music is a universal language. been learned our viewers out there. need it in our. d.v.d. lab there are tools now it's all of you that are. up. there in the chukotka autonomy. home to the indigenous people double the size of

germany it has just 50000 residents. joining the night our drivers get hungry. in the early morning hours we reach our destination. than current. only 190 people live here but every year you know undated with visitors several for . 1000 will recess. spend the next few days with surrogate caffrey a member of the indigenous people he belongs to a family of marine hunters he wants to pass on his knowledge to his nephew yuri as

soon as the weather improves they plan to go hunting together. the. surrogate tells us that the chook to live from will always says he takes us to see their colony so gay has noticed changes in the marine mammals rhythm of life. he says the walrus is which can weigh several tons spending long periods on lead lounging around on the ice is no longer an option. on the hoarded belak or the ice disappears earlier and it keeps retreating. but the walrus is need to have somewhere to rest. they take a holiday with us in a bunker am from august to october. but panic keeps breaking out among the

walrus as they often trample one another to death to document the fatalities so gay must free their bodies which are frozen to the ground so it is absolutely rocked the extensive spread of civilization in the arctic or the use of the northeast passage of the increase in military technology and even tourism are possible causes . here we need our rules and regulations that help the wall recess and reduce their panic. what his arms reach. in the museo if you bring the king another reason why the walrus is good spirits can be seen up on the cliff so he says he's counted some 200 polar bears around banker in. the truth have always lived alongside paula bin is also sergei knows when it's best to just leave the polar bear is suddenly looking too interested in this massive area supports great and our

religion isn't that we believe that you're descended from an animal was my brother for example descends from a polar bear. they told me to my great disappointment that i am the descendant of awards not a broader walk not too long ago a polar bear sentence something edible right in front of surrogates kitchen window the more they have attacked melts away the closer these predators get to humans. that's why even the smallest children here learn how to use a flare gun once a year so a guy pays a visit to the primary school inventor him here he teaches children how to avoid a confrontation with the band. the yeah bear. a bear right and who can tell me which direction the bear went north.

children can go to school in vancouver m. until the 5th grade after that they must attend boarding school. far from home people here say that during that time they often forget their own culture and language. bank or ems only general store office everything from changes to shoes. bought no alcohol at least not officially. they fear that in these harsh climate people who try to drown their sorrows in drink there's a saying in chicago here the weather is bad one month of the year very bad for 2 months and for 9 months it's awful. you live in the town most of the time he works as a technician and has

a wife and child. which i don't know what it is but something keeps drawing me back here here i forget my fear and my sorrows. the view the u.a.e. today is a special day he'll be leading the hopkinton for the 1st time. people here go for months in winter without seeing the sun the days men tell me nothing compensates for that better than walrus meat. they say that it's safer to kill the animals in water than on land. log. as indigenous people that should check up committed to hunt boris's to meet their

own personal names even though they're faced with extinction. so gay says that his people are also threatened with extinction. yes i'm like the walrus is the chick doesn't have a lobby. group. that if you look at the street now the prisoners whether in this region or any other. kind the few indigenous peoples on this earth have never inflicted great harm on nature but in a few pretty broad and that's something you can't say of white people. i'm sure. our journey along the arctic circle ends here are only the bering strait separates russia from alaska we forced our way through thousands of kilometers of this bleak and inhospitable landscape people here have long braved the elements and

forces of nature but now they confronted with immense changes which will alter their lives they hung land and our world. played. played. pick up. in. the last minute christmas cheer reclaiming. their way to. dismiss just because of that. joining 1st major players is immune.

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