Climate Change

Well, here's what everyone's been waiting for, a video update from Zacharias straight from the floe edge! Yes, we're taking you there to meet our Inuit guides and see the majestic Arctic landscape and animals.

Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change. Here's the a trailer developed for this project that was shot in the community of Pangnirtung. Over the past year, Pangnirtung has been ravaged by climate change impacts, which has caused glacial melting to wash away a number of bridges in the community, causing a local state of emergency in the summer of 2008.… Read more

In December 2008, the low-lying Carterets Islands were badly damaged by king tides and violent storm surges. Nicholas Hakata, a local youth leader and community representative, explains that he and his family have been surviving on mainly fish and coconuts, and battling the swamp mosquitoes that have brought malaria.
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Deep in the old growth forests of Borneo, the Setulang Dayak village guards its forest with might. To date, the village's traditional law of Tana Olen (forbidden forest), withstands increasing pressure from encroaching logging industries.… Read more

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“When that whole ocean comes and rises up, where are we going to go?” ponders Inherkowinginambana, a Kunjen elder from Kowanyama, a coastal Aboriginal community in tropical Queensland, Australia. Like other coastal peoples, Australian Aboriginals living traditionally on gulf coastal plains are particularly susceptible to even the most minor changes in sea level and monsoon flooding.

The fire abatement scheme of Western Arnhemland is a carbon offset community programme, gaining a lot of international attention.