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Climate change opens the Arctic – Combating desertification – Using online activism to tackle big business – Eyewitness accounts about climate change – these stories and more in this edition of Living Planet.Tune in via the live-stream or download the program as a podcast. Send your comments and questions to features@dw-world.de.Climate Change Opens the ArcticBoth the Northwest and Northeast Passages were completely ice free this summer. Great for shipping, but how bad is it for the environment?The German research vessel Polarstern has returned to the port of Bremerhaven after its journey to the Arctic. The ship is operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, or AWI, which carries out research in the Arctic and Antarctic as well as the high and mid latitude oceans. Due to the complete lack of ice in both the Northwest and Northeast passages this summer, the Polarstern was the first research vessel to cruise completely around the North Pole. On board were researchers from 12 nations, including Germany, France, Japan, Russia and the United States. Living Planet spoke with Dr Ruediger Gerdes, a physical oceanographer with AWI. Interview: Mark Mattox and Ruediger Gerdes, AWIEnvironment, Forced Migration and Social VulnerabilityDesertification doesn’t just threaten millions of hectares of land, but also the livelihood of countless numbers of people.This month, the first international conference on the topic of "environment, forced migration and social vulnerability" took place in Bonn. Some 500 experts, politicians and students took part in the event, which showcased speakers from around the world. For three days the visitors discussed the effects of environmental and climate change. There was one point which they all agreed on - the necessity to effectively counteract the spread of desert regions. Maximilian Rech visisted the conference and his report is presented by Eva Wutke. Report: Maximilian Rech / Eva WutkeOnline Activism Provides Real Action on Climate ChangeBy using the internet some people are taking a stand and beating big business at the emissions game.It was controversial from the start and it still is today; the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme created a market in emissions by capping corporate pollution levels. Those companies wanting to emit more than this cap have to buy their permits from cleaner rivals. It’s supposed to an incentive to reduce emissions over time and invest in cleaner energy sources, but it’s been dogged by accusations that it’s merely favoured big business at the expense of the environment. But now environmental campaigners think they’ve found a way of beating the emissions market at its own game. Naomi Fowler’s been investigating. Report: Naomi FowlerClimate Witness Series: AlaskaIn Living Planet’s new ‘Climate Witness’ mini-series we hear first-hand testimony about the consequences of climate change.George Divoky is an ornithologist from the institute of Arctic Biology at the University of Fairbanks in Alaska. He has spent most of his career observing a colony of black guillemots, a type of seabird, on Cooper Island, a remote and otherwise uninhabited island in the Arctic Beufort Sea, around 35 miles north of Barrow, the northernmost settlement in the US. Over the past 30 years, George's bird watching project has turned into an observation of climate change at its most dramatic. Report: Irene Quaile
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