The Arctic is one of the fastest warming places on Earth, another symptom of global climate change.

Since the 1980s, temperatures there have risen at nearly triple the global rate.

This past summer was the wettest on record, and then a heat wave in August set all-time temperature records in several Alaskan and Canadian communities.

As digital producer Casey Coon explains, this warming is falling most severely on those who call

the Arctic home.

This summer in the Arctic was the wettest on record and the second warmest in more than a century.

These dramatic changes marked by the

2024 Arctic Report Card from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA,

present significant challenges for indigenous people.

This Arctic report card serves as an early warning sign for America as a nation,

that Alaska and Arctic is getting hit first and worse,

and as a nation, we need to be prepared.

Noah found the Arctic, which typically traps carbon in its frozen soil, now emits more carbon

than its stores. That's due to increased wildfires and melting permafrost, which both release

climate warming carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere. That shift, scientists say,

will make climate change worse. For Native Alaskans, a changing climate means a changing way of

life, says Jackie Catalania Schaefer, Director of Climate Initiatives at the Alaska

Native Tribal Health Consortium or ANTHC. We have communities that rely on subsistence foods, which is

foods that come from nature. That economy is not equated into dollars, but if it goes away, it's a huge part of how people survive

in the Arctic. We have communities in smaller communities that rely up to 80 percent on those food

resources, and they're organic natural food resources, which are being impacted by climate change.

The NOAA report also found that Arctic ice in the sea continues to shrink

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