In the Arctic, Ice is Life
And it's Disappearing

. . . .In the springtime we are seeing the ice disappearing faster, which reduces our hunting time for walrus, seals, and whales. The ice freezes later. Ice is a supporter of life. It brings the sea animals from the north into our area and in the fall it also becomes an extension of our land. When it freezes along the shore, we go out on the ice to fish, to hunt marine mammals, and to travel. Ice is a very important element in our lives. We see ice in different ways. When the quality of ice, in other words, its hardness, its durability, and our ability to walk on it, hunt on it, changes, then it affects our lives. And it affects the animals too. They depend on the ice for breeding, for pupping, denning, lying, and having their young. They molt on it, they migrate on it. And so ice is very important element ot us. When it starts disintergrating and disappearing faster, it affects our lives dramatically.

Fidel Moreno, "In the Artic, Ice is Life" from an interview with Caleb Pungowiyi, a Yupik Native from Nome, Alaska, in Native Americas