11 Dec Inuits need cash for freezers in warming Arctic (Reuters)
Inuit communities need funds to adapt to climate change in the Arctic, including measures to build communal deep freezers to store game because warming is reducing their hunting season, an Inuit leader said on Friday. The Inuit, the indigenous people of Greenland, Canada, Alaska and Russia, have traditionally hunted for Arctic species from seal to polar bear, whale to caribou. “In Canada we see climate changes on a day to day basis,” said Violet Ford, a Canadian official of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC)… go to article