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Why climate policy makers should listen more carefully to the Arctic’s Indigenous peoples

Traditional knowledge offers a blueprint for climate resilience that the rest of the world should take seriously.

By Anita Parlow November 26, 2019
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While the global spotlight has placed climate change on many regional and national agendas, it’s easy to overlook smaller scale efforts to adapt and build climate resilience. One of the best examples of such grassroots resilience comes from Savoonga, one of two villages on the 90-mile-long St. Lawrence Island located in the Bering Sea, off the western coast of Alaska, closer to Russia.

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