Warmer world hurts Inuit food supplies

2 December 2005webbindia123.com / UPI

A representative of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference says that rising temperatures in the Arctic are hurting food supplies.

Ronald Brower Sr. was one of the participants in the Alaska Resource Development Council's annual conference, the Alaska Journal of Commerce reported.

Brower, one of the speakers on a panel on climate change, said that Inuit subsistence hunters in Alaska, Russia and Canada are having more trouble finding food. The higher temperatures have also made icehouses less reliable storage places, he said.

We are experiencing things in one lifetime that should take five or six generations, Brower said. We are making do with less and trying to make the most of it.

The ICC represents 145,000 Inuit living in Russia, Alaska, Canada and Greenland.