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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1122-07.htm
Published on Monday, November 22, 2004 by Reuters
As Ice Thaws, Arctic Peoples at Loss for Words
by Alister Doyle
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Many indigenous languages have no words for legions of new animals,
insects and plants advancing north as global warming thaws the polar
ice and lets forests creep over tundra.
"We can't even describe what we're seeing," said Sheila
Watt-Cloutier, chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference (news - web
sites) which says it represents 155,000 people in Canada, Alaska,
Greenland and Russia.
An eight-nation report this month says the Arctic is warming twice as
fast as the rest of the planet and that the North Pole could be
ice-free in northern hemisphere summer by 2100, threatening
indigenous cultures and perhaps wiping out creatures like polar bears.
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