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Food Insecurity: Arctic Heat Is Threatening Indigenous Life, and How SeaShare is Helping

Canadian author and photographer Ed Struzik wrote a compelling piece this week in Yale University's Environment 360 Magazine about climate change and food insecurity in the Arctic. In the article, Struzik wrote of the decades-long trend of extreme Arctic warming, which has led to declining sea ice, and the difficulties these changes pose for subsistence hunting and fishing. In looking at the response to declining food sources, Struzik highlighted the work of SeaShare in donating 10,000 pounds of halibut to Gambell, Savoonga, Diomede, and Wales last year.

The Tribal President of Diomede, Andrew Milligrock, told us after the donation, "On behalf of the Native Village of Diomede and all residents, we would like to send our sincere gratitude and high-5s for the generous donation of fish to our Inupiaq hometown. Your charity will bring goodness to our dinner tables."

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