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Polar Regions

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Herd of reindeer passes through a snowy clearing with tall trees in the distant background. Some reindeer lean down, pushing their snouts into the snow.
Eons
Season 3 / Ep 11
9 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person working on a large vertical sheet of ice. Caption: For them, time on the ice is part of the job.
Science Nation
Episode 27
3 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Helicopter hovering over a rocky, snow covered landscape. Caption: Traveling by helicopter, plane, and snowmobile,
Science Nation
Episode 104
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Microscopic image showing web-like structures and C shaped tubular organisms. Caption: (narrator) The soil itself is home to a vast number of tiny microbes,
Science Nation
Episode 9
3 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Microscopic view of tubular structures. Caption: (Saros) They can be early indicators of environmental change.
Science Nation
Episode 87
3 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Computer screen displaying two uneven strands of light. Caption: that thrives where life would seem impossible.
Science Nation
Episode 184
4 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Person holding a cylindrical piece of ice. Caption: This one is based on the ratio of heavy to light hydrogen.
Science Nation
Episode 179
4 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Points of light spaced evenly across a surface. A rod with spheres extends down the center. Caption: It's a cubic kilometer full of sensors known as IceCube,
Science Nation
Episode 145
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Aerial view of ice breaking apart as it flows onto land from an ice shelf. Caption: Ice flows from the land over the fjord,
Science Nation
Episode 51
3 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Stacked shelves of cylindrical metal canisters. Caption: (Twickler) This freezer contains more than 10 miles of ice cores
Science Nation
Episode 64
2 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Three researchers in parkas with equipment on a sheet of ice. Caption: and a team are here to study algae,
Science Nation
Episode 24
3 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Small furry animal perched on two legs in woody scrub with no leaves. Caption: This is the Arctic ground squirrel.
Science Nation
Episode 16
3 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Cross section of a sheet of ice on a rock shelf. The ice has a pool of melted water that travels from the surface, down to the rock, and then to the ocean. Caption: for 100,000 years are now undergoing dynamic changes.
Science Nation
Episode 58
2 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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