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<div>'Sea, ice, snow, it’s all changing': Inuit culture struggles with warming world</div>
Every aspect of the indigenous Inuit culture grows from the land – but the unpredictable seasons are forcing the community to adjust their traditionsMartin Shiwak is navigating his snowmobile along the frozen shoreline when his eight-year-old son Dane, who is riding on the back, points at a wall of stunted spruce trees. Related: Climate change study in Canada's Hudson Bay thwarted by climate change The world may have warmed by around 1C (1.8F) over the past century but the Arctic far outstrips this global average and is warming at around twice the rate of the rest of the world. Related: Could sprinkling sand save the Arctic's shrinking sea ice? Continue reading...