430 • INFONORTH Climate Change and the Inuvialuit of Banks Island, NWT: Using Traditional Environmental Knowledge to Complement Western Science
THE impacts of future climate change are expectedto be felt earliest and most keenly at Arctic latitudes(Maxwell, 1997). Significant environmental changes observed in the last decade, such as late freeze-ups, melting sea ice, shrinking permafrost layers, and evidence of northern range expansions for...
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| Summary: | THE impacts of future climate change are expectedto be felt earliest and most keenly at Arctic latitudes(Maxwell, 1997). Significant environmental changes observed in the last decade, such as late freeze-ups, melting sea ice, shrinking permafrost layers, and evidence of northern range expansions for some species |
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