CBC | Radio-Canada Documentary A Day in the Life of Canada
All of the images you will see in this wonderful documentary were recorded on September 6, 2002. You will meet Canadians from all walks of life, in every province and territory. One day, 50 cameras and six time zones. The sights and sounds of the people, the landscape and the country. Viewers stalk a musk-ox in Canada's North, gather the ...
- 2002
- 00:53:44
- 13-14
- Added on: 06/14/2013
Canadian Museum of Nature Algae in the ice and climate change
Biologist Michel Poulin describes the importance of the “lungs of the ocean” – tiny algae and phytoplankton that drive the food chain in the Arctic.
- 2019
- 00:01:17
- 13-14
- Added on: 12/13/2019
News in Review - November 2019 Arctic Ambitions: Russia’s Race to Control Northern Resources
Russia and Canada share a border in the Arctic, and both countries are hungry to control the vast resources it offers. With global warming, much of the sea ice is melting, giving access to waterways that are faster and more economical for year-round shipping. The Arctic is also thought to possess up to one quarter of the Earth’s undiscovered oil ...
- 2019
- 00:10:44
- 13-14
- Added on: 11/20/2019
Canadian Museum of Nature Arctic fossil forest of 50 million years ago
Fossil sites in the Arctic from about 50 million years ago provide a glimpse of life that evolved in the tropical forest under extreme greenhouse conditions. The Arctic was a warm, wet, swampy, forested place 50 million years ago. Ellesmere Island is a key fossil site in Canada's High Arctic, where the remains of unique mammal species can tell us ...
- 2011
- 00:03:36
- 15-17
- Added on: 12/13/2019
Canadian Museum of Nature Arctic fossils
Giant beavers and an Arctic forest? Curator Kieran Shepherd describes some of the surprising fossil finds in Canada’s Arctic and the work required to find them.
- 2019
- 00:01:26
- 13-14
- Added on: 12/13/2019
The Nature of Things Arctic Meltdown: A Changing World (Part 1 of 3)
In Episode 1 of the Arctic Meltdown series, we see the changes that are upsetting the scientific predictions of the impact of climate change on the Arctic. Now, one sobering forecast is that the Arctic Ocean will be seasonally ice free by the summer of 2013. This possibility is what drives environmentalists to identify ways to minimize the changes affecting ...
- 2009
- 00:44:38
- 9-12
- Added on: 06/14/2013
The Nature of Things Arctic Meltdown: Adapting to Change (Part 3 of 3)
Episode 3 of the Arctic Meltdown series from The Nature of Things tracks two different Arctics — one that is the storybook land of ice, snow and polar bears and the other that is covered with petroleum plants and pipelines carrying fossil fuels. Bylot Island is a national park and for 20 years a team of Canadian scientists have come ...
- 2009
- 00:44:26
- 9-12
- Added on: 06/14/2013
The Nature of Things Arctic Meltdown: The Arctic Passages (Part 2 of 3)
Episode 2 of the Arctic Meltdown series explores the Northwest Passage and how these dangerous waters are suddenly becoming accessible to businesses and shipping. Ports like Churchill, Manitoba and Murmansk, Russia expect to see business grow in years to come. Until recently, only a few ships braved travel through these ice-strewn waters. More and more ships cross these seas each ...
- 2009
- 00:43:18
- 9-12
- Added on: 06/14/2013
News in Review - December 1991 Arctic Plane Crash: The Perilous North
This tragedy and story of heroism is the point of departure for an exploration of Canada's Far North.
- 1991
- 00:13:12
- 13-14
- Added on: 12/15/1991
News in Review - January 2013 B.C. Earthquake
On a quiet Saturday evening in the fall of 2012, the coast of British Columbia was rocked by a 7.7 magnitude earthquake. Though no lives were lost and little damage was reported, the quake did reveal weakness in Canada's emergency preparedness.
- 2013
- 00:16:08
- 9-12
- Added on: 01/15/2013
