"Everything we do involves the ocean and sea ice, which is highly affected by climate change," says Natasha Simonee, a member of the Inuit community in Pond Inlet.ĭiminishing ice, warmer winters and changes to weather patterns are not just background noise for people like Simonee. And yet, climate change is reshaping this part of the world dramatically – and impacting the people who live there. It's not the sort of place some people would immediately associate with "global warming".
In winter, temperatures drop to an average of -35C (-31F), though they have been known to dip below -50C (-58F). It is a community huddled between mountains, on a northern shore of Baffin Island, Canada – a place further north than the northernmost tip of mainland Norway. About 1,600 people live in the village of Pond Inlet, or Mittimatalik as it is known in the Inuit language Inuktitut.
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