An unexpected climate scientist
When George Divoky first came to study sea birds in the Alaskan Arctic, he didn't expect that - 40 years on - he'd have stumbled on a canary in the coal mine of climate change in the Arctic.
Frozen Planet director, Elizabeth White, spent two weeks with George at his field site on Cooper Island to discover what keeps him coming back to this remote gravel island.
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