(...) The Arctic plains are an eminent example of nature’s untouched beauty: an endless nothing in which only few know how to survive. However, the truth is different. The Arctic ecosystem is under a serious threat, dangerous pesticides are silently accumulating here, with serious health effects on its inhabitants being only one of them.The recent developments in the Arctic area are a disturbing symbol of the often hidden global consequences of pollution at the national and local level that calls for a new system on International Environmental Governance. (...)

The article:
http://www.unep.org/civil-society/GlobalMajorGroupsStakeholdersForum/GMGSF12/SilentSnowMoviePremiere/tabid/7197/Default.aspx

The movie website:
http://www.silentsnow.org/

Basic information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit

Sull'argomento:

http://www.akspace.it/ak/testi/showtex.php?sot=fvfc011T

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Passato...presente:

https://www.fabiomanzione.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=666:lartico-non-si-salva-senza-lo-sviluppo-sostenibile-dei-suoi-popoli-autoctoni-&catid=33:ambiente&Itemid=58