The Inuit, First Witnesses of Climate Changes

摘要

As a child, Shari Fox Gearheard used to dig snow caves around her house in Ontario (Canada), crawl inside and fall asleep, "because it was so peaceful". A couple of decades later, now a postdoctoral researcher with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) based at Harvard University, she lives with the Inuit people of Clyde River, Nunavut, on the eastern shores of Baffin Island (Canada). In line with the work of UNESCO's LINKS and MOST programmes that document and promote indigenous knowledge, she is recording the Inuit's observations of climate change.