World’s Toughest Places - Refugee Camp in the Sahara & Melting Ice in Greenland | Free Documentary

World’s Toughest Places | Juárez, Mexico & Sao Paula, Brazil:    • World’s Toughest Places | Juárez, Mex...  

00:00 Algeria and Western Sahara
An estimated 165,000 Sahrawis live in refugee camps – El Aaiun, Awserd, Smara, and Dakhla – in the desolate Sahara desert in southwest Algeria. According to UNICEF, about 80 percent of them are women and children. The refugees remain “the longest housed refugee groups in the world are stuck in a remote part of the Sahara where temperatures can reach up to 50 degrees Celsius.” The camps are often referred to as “The Devil’s Garden.”

23:30 Greenland - A Requiem for Snow
Globally snow is on retreat, especially since 1980. Most mountain glaciers are getting smaller. Snow cover is retreating earlier in the spring. Sea ice in the Arctic is shrinking in all seasons, most dramatically in summer. Reductions are reported in permafrost, seasonally frozen ground, and river and lake ice. Important coastal regions of the ice sheets on Greenland and West Antarctica, and the glaciers of the Antarctic Peninsula, are thinning and contributing to sea level rise.

Home to 57,000 people and located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, Greenland is the largest island in the world. About 85 percent of the island's land surface is covered by ice but as the world knows that ice is melting and fast. The cracks in the ice are well documented as are the resultant rising sea levels. Equally well documented are the threats to the Inuit way of life.
▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
Subscribe Free Documentary Channel for free: https://bit.ly/2YJ4XzQ
Instagram:   / free.documentary  
Facebook: https://bit.ly/2QfRxbG
Twitter: https://bit.ly/2QlwRiI
▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
#FreeDocumentary #Documentary #WhatInTheWorld
▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
Free Documentary is dedicated to bringing high-class documentaries to you on YouTube for free with the latest camera equipment used by well-known filmmakers working for famous production studios. You will see fascinating shots from the deep seas and up in the air, capturing great stories and pictures of everything our extraordinary planet offers.