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Three explorers traveled to Baffin Island this summer as an 'Education through Expeditions' team to document the effects of climate change, but what they saw shocked them; glaciers collapsing in front of their eyes, polar bears moving closer to towns and devastating flood damage. This is the second part of a three year comparison project for Antony Jinman’s school outreach project and continual fundraising for the Princes Trust.

Hi there,

I found your site, and want to thank you for some of the inspiration for our action today.

I want to let you know about the protest that I'm a part of in front of the State department. Hope you find it interesting, and you can be sure you have allies in the fight for climate refugee justice. I'm a little new to this issue, so any help would be appreciated.

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Morgan

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Morgan Goodwin
Avaaz Action Factory DC
Twitter: mogmaar

Hello,

In my own part of the country, the winters are clearly not as cold as they used to be. Nor is there as much snow, reports Doug Kiel, an Oneida Indian from Wisconsin, USA (North America). Wisconsin's 15,000 lakes are a tremendously important natural resource and we usually fish them year-round, even after they freeze over in the winter. But the winters are getting warmer, and in recent years this has not always been possible. When I was a child, the lakes froze over in December and did not thaw until nearly April.

Aloha,

I live in the middle of the Pacific Ocean in an area known as Waimea, which is located on the island of Hawaii. I live on what has been known for decades as the "wet side," where constant drizzle, fog, and wind swept sidewards rain were common. In recent years we have had much less rainfall than normal. Actually, we are suffering drought conditions here in Waimea while the normally dry area known as Kona has had more rain than usual. The rainfall seems to have shifted from the wet to dry areas on this island.

Hello,
We are an NGO interested in writing an in-depth report about the climate changes in our area, what has caused it, and how it affects us. How can UNESCO help us to do that?

Thank you.

Lori Johnston
Yamasi People

In the spring we used to hunt walrus and bowhead whale along leads in the ice, said Merlin Koonooka, from Gambell, Alaska (at a Convention on Biological Diversity meeting on Climate Change in Helsinki, Finland, 26 March 2008). But the ice we have now is of a different behaviour. It tends to move in one big mass compressed together near the shore. This is ‘warm water ice’: it is not a good solid freeze. This is bad ice. Game does not like to stay on this ice. It also interferes with hunting because it is difficult and dangerous to get across it to get to the open water.