“Siku” means sea ice in the Siberian Yup’ik language. But about a hundred other Yup’ik words describe different types of sea ice, including icebergs, floating pressure ice ridges, solid ice safe for travel — and “pequ,”
With air temperatures increasing four times faster since 1979, the annual minimum sea ice extent has decreased by 13% per decade,. The freeze-up happens later and later in the season, and the shore-fast ice, composed of mostly first-year ice, is now significantly less stable, said Craig George, a retired wildlife biologist with the North Slope Borough Department of Wildlife Management.
“We are our environment,” she said. “No different than a seal or a polar bear, these changes ripple into our world as food security, food sovereignty as well as wellness — our spirituality and our well-being.” For hunters like Cyrus Harris, the head of the Hunter Support Program at the Maniilaq Association, sea ice melt means hazardous travel.
The participants of the Meaning of Melt panel stand next to the cube of ice brought from Utqiagvik to Anchorage for the Arctic Encounter Symposium on March 29, 2023.
Over harvesting by the almighty dollar is killing our fish.
How do you know this didn't happen in the past? My grandmother lived to be 99 and she said,sometimes we never had snow so don't worry about it. Weather changes! Quit spreading Y2K lies!
Adapt or move.
there is many factors to climate change and using fear is not 1 but just a tool for what others don't want Alaskans to have ,I call this 'No rights for Inuits' just for money grubbers.