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The increasing frequency of extreme weather and climate is already adversely impacting economic and health outcomes. An important, and emerging, application of climate extremes data is to human health and [...]

Increased variability in weather and sea ice conditions due to climate change has led to high rates of injury, trauma, and death for Inuit travelling on the sea ice. Contributing to these high rates are the ongoing effects of colonial policies that diminish and disrupt the intergenerational transfer of sea ice Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (IQ). Despite these challenges, place-based experiential IQ continues to be the most important information source for safe travel on the sea ice. This paper presents an Inuit-led, coproduced, cross-cultural research project in which Inuit youth documented and mobilized sea ice IQ in Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet), Nunavut for safe community sea ice travel. We outline the Inuit youth training to facilitate the terminology and participatory mapping workshops and to document this IQ. We also discuss the IQ that was most important to share, and the mapping and artistic methods used to mobilize this IQ into a booklet, maps, and posters. Inuktitut sea ice terms are the foundation to enable youth with the skills to learn about sea ice IQ with experienced hunters. IQ enables Inuit to interpret and synthesize information from weather forecasts, earth observations, and community-based monitoring to apply to local conditions. Seasonal IQ maps of safe and hazardous sea ice conditions provide travel planning information at spatial and temporal scales that supplemental information sources cannot address. The IQ products mobilize preparedness, situational awareness, navigation, and interpretation skills so Inuit youth can become more self-reliant, as access to technology is not always possible once out on the sea ice. Key words: Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit; knowledge mobilization; sea ice travel safety; climate change adaptation; Inuit self-determination in research La fluctuation accrue des conditions meteorologiques et de l'etat de la glace de mer decoulant du changement climatique se traduit par des taux plus eleves de blessures, de traumatismes et de deces chez les Inuits se deplafant sur la glace de mer. A cela s'ajoutent les effets permanents des politiques coloniales qui amenuisent et perturbent le transfert intergenerationnel de l'Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (IQ) au sujet de la glace de mer. Malgre ces defis, l'IQ tire de l'experience sur les lieux continue de representer la source d'information la plus importante pour favoriser des deplacements securitaires sur la glace de mer. Cet article presente un projet de recherche interculturel dirige et co-realise par des Inuits dans le cadre duquel de jeunes Inuits ont documente et mobilise l'lQ sur la glace de mer a Mittimatalik (inlet Pond), au Nunavut, en vue de deplacements communautaires securitaires sur la glace de mer. Nous mettons l'accent sur la formation refue par les jeunes Inuits visant a faciliter les ateliers de terminologie et de cartographie participative ainsi qu'a documenter l'IQ en question. Nous discutons egalement de l'IQ le plus important a partager de meme que de la cartographie et des methodes artistiques utilisees pour mobiliser l'IQ dans un cahier, sur des cartes et sur des affiches. Les termes inuktituts propres a la glace de mer servent de fondement pour doter les jeunes des connaissances necessaries pour apprendre l'IQ de la glace de mer avec les chasseurs d'experience. L'IQ permet aux Inuits d'interpreter et de synthetiser l'information en provenance des previsions meteorologiques, des observations de la terre et de la surveillance communautaire afin de l'appliquer aux conditions locales. Les cartes saisonnieres de l'IQ illustrant les conditions securitaires et les conditions dangereuses de la glace de mer fournissent de l'information pour la planification des deplacements a l'echelle spatiale et temporelle que des sources supplementaires ne pourraient fournir. Les produits de l'IQ permettent de mobiliser les competences en preparation, en connaissance de la situation, en navigation et en interpretation pour que les jeunes Inuits puissent devenir plus autonomes, car l'acces a la technologie n'est pas toujours possible lorsqu'ils se trouvent sur la glace de mer. Mots cles : Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit; mobilisation des connaissances; securite des deplacements sur la glace de mer; adaptation au changement climatique; autodetermination des Inuits dans la recherche Traduit pour la revue Arctic par Nicole Giguere. Inuktitut Abstract and Acknowledgement tranlsations by Mishak Allurut, Ikpiarjuk, NU., INTRODUCTION Studies over the past 17 years have shown that climate change is resulting in increasingly dangerous sea ice travel conditions for Inuit (Fox, 2004; Tremblay et al., 2006; Laidler [...]

Since 1996, considerable challenges have faced hapu in terms of ecosystem decline in lands and waterways within southwestern coastal Maori lands from the Horowhenua to Kapiti regions of Te Ika a Maui/North Island, Aotearoa New Zealand. The rationales for hapu re-enhancing intergenerational connections to their lands have required culturally led, collaborative, innovative, solutions-focused, and transformative actions to reinstate well-being to areas of cultural and natural value. Beginning with the project 'Manaaki Taha Moana: Enhancing Coastal Ecosystems for Iwi and Hapu' (2010-2015), hapu have collaborated with specialists to cocreate new frameworks for addressing short-term issues and long-term impacts of sea-level rise, leading to the 'Adaptation Strategies for Climate Change for Coastal Maori Communities' project (2015-2017). Building on Maori methods such as wananga, hui, and hikoi, these approaches have strengthened localized cultural knowledge of place as the lens through which climate change and fluvial geomorphology sciences can be viewed. Developed design scenarios have encouraged beneficial relationships between culture, settlement form, ecologies, economies, and farming practices in order to better prepare Maori communities for the ecological and socioeconomic impacts of climate change. Art and design have helped bridge Maori culture, sciences, and communities' understanding of complex data within university-based and curated exhibitions. The latest project, 'Risk Management Planning for Climate Change Impacts on Maori Coastal Ecosystems and Economies' (2017-2019), envisages integrative decision-making tools to enable more coastal Maori landholders to assess the risks and benefits associated with alternative coastal land uses and economies. KEYWORDS: climate change, matauranga Maori, whakapapa, hikoi, korero tuku iho, adaptation strategies, transition action plans, This article highlights critical Maori agency, which has enhanced intergenerational connections to, and responsibilities for, coastal landholdings in Maori land tenure, including the work of hapu (collectives of families) to [...]

The category-4 storm is the latest in a line of tropical cyclones that have closed universities, caused scientists to evacuate and disrupted research projects. The category-4 storm is the latest in a line of tropical cyclones that have closed universities, caused scientists to evacuate and disrupted research projects., Author(s): Max Kozlov Author Affiliations: Hurricane Ida forces Louisiana researchers to rethink their future Hurricane Ida destroyed almost 30,000 utility poles. Some Louisiana residents could be without power for up [...]

US President Joe Biden's environmental-justice adviser says: tackle inequality and global warming together. US President Joe Biden's environmental-justice adviser says: tackle inequality and global warming together., Author(s): Catherine Coleman Flowers Author Affiliations: Hurricane Ida shows the one-two punch of poverty and climate change I spent the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina watching as the Weather Channel [...]

How much harm does a single individual act, such as an afternoon pleasure ride in a gas-guzzling car, cause with regard to its effects on climate change? None, according to [...]

In some respects the effects of climate on human history are obvious and undeniable. Who could deny that the repeated advance and retreat of the glaciers during the ice ages […]

SUBSTANTIAL efforts are being directed at predicting the impacts of climate change on Arctic resources. However, less research has extended the discussion of impact assessment to address the sensitivities of [...]

Atmosphere ... The Climate Revealed by Ice Museum of Arts and Crafts, Paris Until 30 April 2009 With rising levels of emotion clouding the political debate about global climate change, [...]

This article explores the effect of climate change from the typically marginalized experiences of rural communities and rural women. Examining climate change from rural and gendered perspectives gives context to [...]

It is in the public interest to keep Earth's climate on an even keel -- the public, in this case, being all the world's population. Are you prepared to stake your own reputation on helping to improve matters?, Author(s): Thomas Pfeiffer [sup.1] , Martin A. Nowak [sup.1] Author Affiliations: (1) the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and Department of Mathematics, Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University, Cambridge, [...]