And I'll never forget, up in the Bering Sea, I was on a crab boat with the Deadliest Catch guys which I also work on in the first season.

According to two studies made in 1976 and 1978 in the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska, 40 to 60 per cent of bottom trawls collected plastic and metal debris.

On March 9, 1953, from the Gulf of Finland to the Bering Sea, everything stood still likewise in Warsaw, Budapest, Prague, and East Berlin. In Beijing, Mao Zedong himself bowed low before an immense effigy of Joseph Stalin.

Some estimates suggest that about 20 of the world s total oil reserves lie under the Arctic. In 2008, for the first time in human history, two navigation channels through the polar ice field in the East along Siberia, and in the West along the Canadian islands were open for a few months, allowing boats to go from Europe to Japan or California via the Bering Straits, rather than the Panama Canal or the Horn of Africa, thereby saving some 4,000 or 5,000 kilometers.

Some estimates suggest that about 20 of the world s total oil reserves lie under the Arctic. In 2008, for the first time in human history, two navigation channels through the polar ice field in the East along Siberia, and in the West along the Canadian islands were open for a few months, allowing boats to go from Europe to Japan or California via the Bering Straits, rather than the Panama Canal or the Horn of Africa, thereby saving some 4,000 or 5,000 kilometers.