The Arctic Ocean: A Year in the Life of Earth's Harshest Place

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Planet in Focus
Fourteen million square kilometers of ice, darkness, and life. A full annual cycle of the Arctic Ocean—from polar night to polar day and back again. Discover how polar bears, narwhals, bowhead whales, walruses, and creatures that have never seen the sun manage to survive. ⏱ TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 The Arctic Ocean: the smallest and most mysterious ocean
1:41 Polar night and life beneath the ice
2:33 Spring: the Arctic food chain awakens
3:27 Polar bears in Svalbard — birth and first steps
5:36 Ringed seals: living by the rhythm of breathing holes
6:49 A mother bear's journey with her cubs to the sea ice
7:47 Melting ice and the explosion of life at the ice edge
8:45 Narwhals — the unicorns of the Arctic
10:01 Guillemots: birds that leap from cliffs before they can fly
11:12 How polar bears hunt
12:14 Bowhead whales — creatures that remember the time of Napoleon
14:09 Midsummer: the retreating ice
14:49 Walruses and the consequences of ice loss
16:12 The seafloor and "marine snow"
16:41 Beluga whales — the canaries of the Arctic sea
17:49 The Northern Sea Route and the autumn shipping season
18:21 The tragic history of Arctic exploration
19:14 Indigenous peoples: those who know how to read the ice
20:00 Satellites, drones, and melting Greenland
20:43 Multi-year ice vs. seasonal ice — why it matters
22:24 Polar night: bioluminescence and antifreeze in the blood
23:50 The deep Arctic: creatures that live without sunlight
24:44 The Northern Lights — how they form
25:20 Cycle coming full circle

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