Arctic host to a new ‘Cold War’

Nowhere on earth provides more dramatic evidence of the earth’s changing climate than the Arctic. The sea ice is receding. Glaciers are melting.

And even the coldest remotest parts of the region are becoming gradually warmer.

Arctic explorer Pen Hadlow says: “I will always remember seeing a mother polar bear with a young cub just three miles from the North Pole in the middle of April.

“Why would she take it that far north? The answer is that there’s a good supply of food in the form of seals.

BBC