Article 70FVT Climate change fuels adaptation in remote East Greenland

Climate change fuels adaptation in remote East Greenland

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The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth, which means communities living there are already adapting to changing climate conditions. In Tasiilaq, a town of about 2,000 people in remote East Greenland, subsistence hunting and fishing are still major sources of food and livelihood, and shrinking seal hunting seasons due to smaller ice floes coming down the fjord in the summer are changing what - and how - locals hunt, fish and get around. The World's Carolyn Beeler brings us the story.

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