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The Arctic is both one of the most fascinating and most threatened places on Earth. Two film crews travel around the North Pole, starting in the first section from the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard to eastern Siberia. How is the Arctic changing due to global warming? Along the Arctic Circle, the sea ice in the Arctic can be seen steadily receding. This gives cruise companies the opportunity to organize trips to the far north. The desire to see the Northern Lights once in a lifetime often outweighs the concerns about the threat to the ecosystem. The ever-increasing number of tourists worries the residents of Svalbard. On the Yamal Peninsula in northwestern Siberia, the film crew witnessed an ambitious Russian economic project: a company developed gas fields there and built an entire city with its management. The port, which includes a liquefied natural gas terminal, is set to become the hub of the Northeast Passage, which, thanks to the melting sea ice, can be navigated without icebreakers. But two sounds in the Republic of Yakutia interrupt the film crews’ work: the buzzing of huge swarms of mosquitoes in the summer and the constant murmur of melting permafrost on the banks of the Kolyma River. The first part of the film ends in Chukotka in the far north of Russia, a region closer to Alaska than to the Russian capital Moscow. #Documentary #DocumentaryDW #DW #Ice ـــــ Invitation to dialogue at DW: https://p.dw.com/p/OYIo More documentaries are available on our websites in English: http://www.dw.com/ar/tv/docfilm/s-3610 / dwdocumentary / dw.stories: Link to the documentary in English and Spanish • Tour of the Arctic (1/2) – from Svalb...