Climate Change through Inuit Eyes

Snow-covered mountains in upper Canada.
Image: NOAA

"In the old days, we used to have 10 months of winter; now it's six. Every year we're getting winter later and later." These are the words of Simon Awa, an Inuit leader from Nunavut in Canada. There are some 155,000 people in Canada, Greenland, Russian and Alaska who struggle to maintain their ancient way of life in wake of the changing polar climate. The native people have noticed there is less time to hunt caribou, walrus, and polar bear, all now in danger from a thawing climate. These animals must migrate further north to colder climates in order to survive. Scientists fear the change felt in these arctic regions is a forecast of what the rest of the planet may face in the future.

--The USA Today has more information