Arctic Peoples

by Bobbie Jo Greenland

I attended the Coastal Zone Canada 2006 Youth Forum in [GP:Tuktoyaktuk], Northwest Territories, Canada, from August 11-14, 2006. This conference was about the impacts of climate change on coastal communities. Tuktoyaktuk was a good place to hold it. The community has spent millions of dollars in the past few years on putting rocks on the shoreline to try stop erosion. The warming climate is raising the sea level, and warming the permafrost that holds the shoreline together. Read the rest of this entry »