How giving satellite data to Indigenous communities could boost safety and food security
Satellite data that could keep Arctic residents safer on ice already exists. The challenge is getting it to them in a useful form.
October 24, 2018
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Saami herders from Sirges were driving thousands of reindeer across the frozen Kutjaure river towards their winter pastures when disaster struck in late 2009. The ice, normally thick enough for the crossing, broke, spilling reindeer into the ice-cold water. Nearly 300 reindeer died.
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