Images by Lucian Read (Lightstalkers)

As friends and family gather and present gifts, Qipisoq Ulloriaq holds his nephew - dressed in traditional sealskin kamiks (boots), polar bear skin pants, and white canvas anorak - in his lap during a first birthday celebration for the boy. A changing climate - which shows itself in warming temperatures, earlier summers, later winters, and shrinking and thinning sea ice - threatens the livelihoods and traditions of some of the last subsistence hunters on Earth, the Polar Inuit communities of far Northwest Greenland.

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:50:24 +0000

As friends and family gather and present gifts, Qipisoq Ulloriaq holds his nephew - dressed in traditional sealskin kamiks (boots), polar bear skin pants, and white canvas anorak - in his lap during a first birthday celebration for the boy. A changing climate - which shows itself in warming temperatures, earlier summers, later winters, and shrinking and thinning sea ice - threatens the livelihoods and traditions of some of the last subsistence hunters on Earth, the Polar Inuit communities of far Northwest Greenland.
As friends and family gather and present gifts, Qipisoq Ulloriaq holds his nephew - dressed in traditional sealskin kamiks (boots), polar bear skin pants, and white canvas anorak - in his lap during a first birthday celebration for the boy. A changing climate - which shows itself in warming temperatures, earlier summers, later winters, and shrinking and thinning sea ice - threatens the livelihoods and traditions of some of the last subsistence hunters on Earth, the Polar Inuit communities of far Northwest Greenland.

Inuit children fish for fjord cod in the first lead to open in the ice as spring moves towards summer in Siorapaluk, Greenland - the northernmost community on Earth.

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:50:24 +0000

Inuit children fish for fjord cod in the first lead to open in the ice as spring moves towards summer in Siorapaluk, Greenland - the northernmost community on Earth.
Inuit children fish for fjord cod in the first lead to open in the ice as spring moves towards summer in Siorapaluk, Greenland - the northernmost community on Earth.

Millions of little auks gather along the cliff sides near Siorapaluk, Greenland. The small birds - often called the penguins of the Arctic - are a favorite food of the Polar Inuit communities in Northwestern Greenland who net them as they fly above their rookeries. A changing climate which shows itself in warming temperatures, earlier summers, later winters, and shrinking and thinning sea ice also threatens to change the timings of migrations like the little auks and hundreds of other species which move back and forth between the poles and temperate and tropical zones of the planet.

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:50:24 +0000

Millions of little auks gather along the cliff sides near Siorapaluk, Greenland. The small birds - often called the penguins of the Arctic - are a favorite food of the Polar Inuit communities in Northwestern Greenland who net them as they fly above their rookeries. A changing climate which shows itself in warming temperatures, earlier summers, later winters, and shrinking and thinning sea ice also threatens to change the timings of migrations like the little auks and hundreds of other species which move back and forth between the poles and temperate and tropical zones of the planet.
Millions of little auks gather along the cliff sides near Siorapaluk, Greenland. The small birds - often called the penguins of the Arctic - are a favorite food of the Polar Inuit communities in Northwestern Greenland who net them as they fly above their rookeries. A changing climate which shows itself in warming temperatures, earlier summers, later winters, and shrinking and thinning sea ice also threatens to change the timings of migrations like the little auks and hundreds of other species which move back and forth between the poles and temperate and tropical zones of the planet.

The moonrise illuminates a meadow on the outskirts of the Native Alaskan Inupiat village of Norvik, in Northwestern Alaska.

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:50:24 +0000

The moonrise illuminates a meadow on the outskirts of the Native Alaskan Inupiat village of Norvik, in Northwestern Alaska.
The moonrise illuminates a meadow on the outskirts of the Native Alaskan Inupiat village of Norvik, in Northwestern Alaska.

In the first hints of ice for the year, a trio of Alaskans - Inupiat Eskimos Spencer Shroyer and Peter Lambert and their friend Dean Lukin - hunt seals in the waters of Kotzebue Sound on the Chukchi Sea in Northwest Alaska. Subsistence hunting for marine mammals like seals and walrus by native hunters throughout the Arctic is becoming more and more difficult as warming temperatures reduce ice cover and changes migration patterns.

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:50:24 +0000

In the first hints of ice for the year, a trio of Alaskans - Inupiat Eskimos Spencer Shroyer and Peter Lambert and their friend Dean Lukin - hunt seals in the waters of Kotzebue Sound on the Chukchi Sea in Northwest Alaska. Subsistence hunting for marine mammals like seals and walrus by native hunters throughout the Arctic is becoming more and more difficult as warming temperatures reduce ice cover and changes migration patterns.
In the first hints of ice for the year, a trio of Alaskans - Inupiat Eskimos Spencer Shroyer and Peter Lambert and their friend Dean Lukin - hunt seals in the waters of Kotzebue Sound on the Chukchi Sea in Northwest Alaska. Subsistence hunting for marine mammals like seals and walrus by native hunters throughout the Arctic is becoming more and more difficult as warming temperatures reduce ice cover and changes migration patterns.

In the first hints of ice for the year, a trio of Alaskans - Inupiat Eskimos Spencer Shroyer and Peter Lambert and their friend Dean Lukin - hunt seals in the waters of Kotzebue Sound on the Chukchi Sea in Northwest Alaska. Subsistence hunting for marine mammals like seals and walrus by native hunters throughout the Arctic is becoming more and more difficult as warming temperatures reduce ice cover and changes migration patterns.

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:50:24 +0000

In the first hints of ice for the year, a trio of Alaskans - Inupiaq Eskimos Spencer Shroyer and Peter Lambert and their friend Dean Lukin - hunt seals in the waters of Kotzebue Sound on the Chukchi Sea in Northwest Alaska. Subsistence hunting for marine mammals like seals and walrus by native hunters throughout the Arctic is becoming more and more difficult as warming temperatures reduce ice cover and changes migration patterns.

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:50:24 +0000

In the first hints of ice for the year, a trio of Alaskans - Inupiaq Eskimos Spencer Shroyer and Peter Lambert and their friend Dean Lukin - hunt seals in the waters of Kotzebue Sound on the Chukchi Sea in Northwest Alaska. Subsistence hunting for marine mammals like seals and walrus by native hunters throughout the Arctic is becoming more and more difficult as warming temperatures reduce ice cover and changes migration patterns.
In the first hints of ice for the year, a trio of Alaskans - Inupiaq Eskimos Spencer Shroyer and Peter Lambert and their friend Dean Lukin - hunt seals in the waters of Kotzebue Sound on the Chukchi Sea in Northwest Alaska. Subsistence hunting for marine mammals like seals and walrus by native hunters throughout the Arctic is becoming more and more difficult as warming temperatures reduce ice cover and changes migration patterns.

A changing climate - which shows itself in warming temperatures, earlier summers, later winters, and shrinking and thinning sea ice - threatens the livelihoods and traditions of some of the last subsistence hunters on Earth, the Polar Inuit communities of far Northwest Greenland.

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:50:24 +0000

A changing climate - which shows itself in warming temperatures, earlier summers, later winters, and shrinking and thinning sea ice - threatens the livelihoods and traditions of some of the last subsistence hunters on Earth, the Polar Inuit communities of far Northwest Greenland.
A changing climate - which shows itself in warming temperatures, earlier summers, later winters, and shrinking and thinning sea ice - threatens the livelihoods and traditions of some of the last subsistence hunters on Earth, the Polar Inuit communities of far Northwest Greenland.

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:50:23 +0000