Alaska’s vanishing ice threatens to destroy cultures – including our own

There’s a line in the 2018 Arctic Report Card that I keep coming back to.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s
2018 Arctic Report Card noted a record low extent for
virtually the entire ice season in the Bering Sea.

Released this week by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, it notes with alarm the record low extent for virtually the entire ice season in the Bering Sea.

The line brings me back to a sunny midsummer morning in Teller, Alaska.

I’m standing with Mayor Blanche Obanoke-Garnie, just above Teller’s shoreline. I had traveled 4,000 miles north as a National Geographic explorer to listen and learn how Americans were responding to the dynamic and dangerous shifts along our coastlines as sea levels rise.

Read the story from The Guardian by Victoria Herrmann - “Alaska’s vanishing ice threatens to destroy cultures – including our own.”