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Environmental journalist Terri Hansen reporting Indian Country | Indigenous Peoples: Culture | Climate Change | Sustainability | Environmental Health | Climate Change-related Disasters

Arctic Inuit to charge U.S. for climate change

MEJ-logo-medBROOKLIN, Canada (Tierramérica) – The Inuit people of the Arctic regions are preparing to charge the United States with human rights violations, saying that country is the leading culprit behind climate change, which threatens their way of life — and their very survival.

The sharp increase in temperatures in the Arctic has led to dramatic losses of sea ice and melting permafrost (the layer of ground that normally remains frozen year round), which have destroyed buildings and roads and forced relocations of entire native Inuit villages. [Read at the source…]

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