Frozen Planet II (BBC Earth)

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Games of Thrones' top creative arts Emmy winner". The Denver Post. Associated Press. 15 September 2012 . Retrieved 16 September 2012. [ dead link] Heading towards the continent of Antarctica, we traverse the roughest seas on earth - the Southern Ocean - where we find the rarely filmed Antarctic blue whale, the largest animal to have ever lived. At the edge of Antarctica, the sea is so cold that it freezes over, creating a vital ice platform for a mother Weddell seal to raise her precious pup. Still, she needs to protect him from aggressive males. Shedding new light on the beauty and peril of the world's most fragile ecosystems, Frozen Planet offers behind-the-scenes insights and the unique challenges of filing in these frozen worlds, where the camera crew and wildlife alike brave the elements.

Frozen Planet was broadcast on BBC One starting 26 October 2011. Each of the first six episodes comprises the main programme followed by a 10-minute featurette called Freeze Frame, which shows how some of the sequences were filmed. David Attenborough's principal role is to narrate the programmes, but he appears briefly on camera to give an introduction and a closing statement. For the seventh programme, "On Thin Ice", he serves as writer and presenter for what was billed by the BBC as a personal statement on the effects of climate change at the poles. A special programme called "Frozen Planet: The Epic Journey" featuring re-edited highlights from the series was broadcast on BBC One on 28 December 2011. Summers in the Arctic today bring record-breaking heat. With climate change, it is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth. It is predicted that the Arctic Ocean could become ice-free each summer by 2035, raising new challenges for polar bears. Without sea ice, more and more bears are becoming stranded on remote Arctic islands. It's a dangerous place to be for a mother bear with cubs, surrounded by larger, predatory males. a b c d e f g "Frozen Planet II - Filming locations, wildlife and behind the scenes secrets". www.bbc.co.uk . Retrieved 19 September 2022.Published Thursday, 3 November 2011, 10:40 UTC (3 November 2011). "David Attenborough's 'Frozen Planet' soars to 8.5 million – TV News". Digital Spy. Archived from the original on 5 October 2015 . Retrieved 25 November 2011. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link) Finally, in Antarctica, we meet Bill Fraser, who has dedicated 45 years of his life to studying the Adelie penguin. Over this period, he has witnessed changes in weather conditions and the extinction of entire colonies. These ‘canaries in the coal mine’ are a sign that all is not well, even in the remotest place on earth. And changes here have the potential to affect all of us, so an international group of scientists is on an urgent mission to assess the stability of a huge body of ice known as the Thwaites ice shelf. If this plug of ice melts and slips into the ocean, it will raise global sea levels, impacting coastal communities across the planet. From chameleons giving birth on the frosty slopes of Mount Kenya to endangered Amur leopards in the Russian forest and killer whales hunting Weddell seals on ice floes in the Antarctic, Frozen Planet shares incredible undiscovered stories.

From late April to early May 2009, BBC crews were in Hay River, Northwest Territories, Canada [11] filming the annual breakup of the river of the same name, which flows into Great Slave Lake.

Discovery Channel Announces March 18 P…: Discovery Communications". Corporate.discovery.com. 6 December 2011. Archived from the original on 1 February 2015 . Retrieved 28 December 2011. The subject of the second programme is to follow the polar spring: the ice melts and migratory animals move to the polar regions. Most animals give birth to their offspring. Animals highlighted in this episode include the Adélie penguin ( Pygoscelis adeliae), the polar bear ( Ursus maritimus) hunting for ringed seal ( Pusa hispida), the narwhal ( Monodon monoceros), a species of sea gooseberry (phylum Ctenophora), a species of sea slug, a species of sea snail, the Arctic cod (could be Arctogadus glacialis or Boreogadus saida), the Arctic woolly bear moth ( Gynaephora groenlandica), the Arctic wolf ( Canis lupus arctos), the king penguin ( Aptenodytes patagonicus), the macaroni penguin ( Eudyptes chrysolophus), the wandering albatross ( Diomedea exulans), the southern elephant seal ( Mirounga leonina), and the killer whale ( O. orca). Today, the biggest challenge in the tundra is climate change. Warming summers are melting the permafrost deep within the soil, causing the ground to thaw and, in places, the land to collapse. These changes are impacting the animals too. Caribou arrive in herds of 200,000 individuals to raise their calves in the rich pastures, but warming means mosquitos emerge sooner and bother the calves before they have had a chance to gain strength. The parents drive their young to cooler, mosquito-free land, but to get there they must cross rivers running with increased meltwater and escape hungry grizzly bears. They, like much of the tundra's wildlife, are adapted to live in the extremes - but the challenge of today’s warming climate could be one extreme too many. The US broadcast won four prizes at the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards in September 2012, including outstanding nonfiction series, cinematography, sound editing, and picture editing. [40] The following month, it won in three categories at the Wildscreen Festival in Bristol, UK, taking the Panda Awards for best sound, best cinematography, and best series, the latter shared with Human Planet. [41] In January 2013, the series won the public vote for Best Documentary Series at the UK's National Television Awards, beating out Big Fat Gypsy Weddings, One Born Every Minute and Planet Earth Live. [42] Year Holland America Line Premieres 'Planet Earth II in Concert' in Partnership with BBC Earth". Holland America Blog. 14 March 2018. Archived from the original on 4 November 2021 . Retrieved 4 November 2021.