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Pangnirtung, Nunavut, Canada
Elisapee Ishulutaq, an artist who will be 81 in 2007, was born in an outpost camp near Pangnirtung, Nunavut. She said that she used to go dogsledding on Baffin Isle as late as July, but nowadays the snows clear at least two months earlier. “All the mountains were covered with glaciers,” she said. “But there isn’t any deep snow anymore.” A warming Arctic is a severe threat to the 155,000 Inuit and other cultures of the North Polar region. |
