Native observations capture impacts of sea ice changes
Many signs of change in the arcticenvironment have been identified through scientific research. Familiar examples include a thinning of sea ice, earlier growing seasons on land, and rising temperatures in permafrost. Other signs of change have been observed by indigenous residents of the Arctic, who...
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| Summary: | Many signs of change in the arcticenvironment have been identified through scientific research. Familiar examples include a thinning of sea ice, earlier growing seasons on land, and rising temperatures in permafrost. Other signs of change have been observed by indigenous residents of the Arctic, who report changes in sea-ice characteristics, a greater fre-quency of extreme weather, and declines in the availability or body condition of some marine mammals. Caleb Pungowiyi, a Yup’ik Eskimo from Western Alaska, expressed his con-cerns about changes involving arctic marine mammals and the environment in |
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