Arctic: panic on the pack ice!

Ever thinner ice, ever scarcer food, ever dense pollution (even in the most remote regions), ever more threatened life... According to the specialists present at COP15 in Montreal, we are only at the beginning of the collapse , in terms of polar biodiversity.

The German documentary

does not seek to reassure the viewer about the future of his own species through that of a joyful fauna.

Committed to following in the footsteps of a young 2-year-old polar bear named Frost, on the contrary, he makes the overwhelming observation of the degradation of a nature that has fallen victim to our successive attacks.

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frozen immensity

The Arctic Circle, 66.5° North latitude, an icy vastness made up of Greenland, part of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Alaska, Denmark and Iceland and whose sublime beauty fascinates as much as it impresses, worries scientists, anxious to monitor the melting of glaciers or the shortness of the jet stream, the only bulwark against collisions between hot air masses and cold air masses. .

The Arctic is warming four times faster than the rest of the planet.

70 million tons of ice melt there every day.

It's twice too much to ensure the preservation of the fjord...

And without twice too much for the rest of the planet!

But during this time.

While climatologists and scientists around the world are trying by all means to warn about the state of the planet and all the disasters to which we are exposing ourselves, and even more so our children.

As young Frost ventures into ever thinning ice to find food.

While wealthy tourists spend tens of thousands of euros to treat themselves to a cruise on an icebreaker... The 2022 Montreal Conference on Biodiversity (COP 15) was held last December after several postponements related to Covid.

Read alsoCOP15: the world adopts a historic agreement on biodiversity

In its wake, Arte makes a point of putting on the air as often as possible, documentaries and reports relating to the climate.

The grid for this January 14 attests to this.

In addition to the one-and-a-half hour documentary, broadcast in the first part of the evening, viewers will be able to see

, at 11:25 am;

, in the

box , at 1:50 p.m.;

, 5:15 p.m.;

and

, still in the GEO Reportage box, at 6:00 p.m.

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