Sam Demientieff was born near the Yukon River in the Deg Xit'an village of Holy Cross. He spent his childhood navigating Interior Alaska by riverboat. He has lived in Fairbanks since childhood and has worked with Doyon Ltd., Tanana Chiefs Conference and for the Fairbanks Native Association.

Dr. Tero Mustonen is the Chief of the village of Selkie, Finland, and an Arctic scholar specializing in Arctic biodiversity, climate change and Indigenous issues. He is the co-founder of the Snowchange Cooperative—an international organization dedicated to incorporating traditional knowledge into environmental policies. Mustonen has worked as the traditional knowledge coordinator for Eurasia for the Arctic Biodiversity Assessment, and has won several human rights and environmental awards for his work with Snowchange and Indigenous peoples of the Arctic.

Dr. Tero Mustonen is the Chief of the village of Selkie, Finland, and an Arctic scholar specializing in Arctic biodiversity, climate change and Indigenous issues. He is the co-founder of the Snowchange Cooperative—an international organization dedicated to incorporating traditional knowledge into environmental policies. Mustonen has worked as the traditional knowledge coordinator for Eurasia for the Arctic Biodiversity Assessment, and has won several human rights and environmental awards for his work with Snowchange and Indigenous peoples of the Arctic.

Dr. Tero Mustonen is the Chief of the village of Selkie, Finland, and an Arctic scholar specializing in Arctic biodiversity, climate change and Indigenous issues. He is the co-founder of the Snowchange Cooperative—an international organization dedicated to incorporating traditional knowledge into environmental policies. Mustonen has worked as the traditional knowledge coordinator for Eurasia for the Arctic Biodiversity Assessment, and has won several human rights and environmental awards for his work with Snowchange and Indigenous peoples of the Arctic.

Food insecurity is an issue that Arctic communities are facing as a result of climate change. Landscape changes are altering the migration patterns of some Arctic animals, making it difficult to maintain consistent access to country foods. Although food insecurity in an urgent problem in the north, the lower latitudes are also dealing with climate change-induced droughts that are threatening food crops.

Frozen soils, or permafrost, can perfectly preserve animals and plants for thousands of years. But some of these ancient soils are also storing huge volumes of greenhouse gases that will be released as permafrost melts due to rising Arctic temperatures. Studying permafrost behavior under different environmental conditions is allowing researchers to better understand the impact of melting permafrost in the future.

Arctic communities in North America are subjected to more fires every year, which have impacted the local wildlife. University of Alberta professor Mike Flannigan describes how rapid warming in the Arctic is causing an increase in fire activity across the Canadian Arctic and Alaska, and ReAC camp facilitator Malinda Chase discusses what communities can do to limit their fire risk.

You could spend your days in a lab analyzing samples…or you could trek across the Arctic, re-taking images from over 100 years ago. Follow the adventures of ecologist Ken Tape as he captures the effects of climate change on film.

Rivers are the highways of interior Alaska, but climate change is making travel treacherous. Alaska Native Elders come together at the Signs of the Land camp to discuss the past and plan for the future.

Policy-makers are connecting with indigenous peoples through the Snowchange Cooperative to develop Arctic climate change policies. Tero Mustonen, founder of the Snowchange Co-op, describes the initiative and how Arctic communities are adapting to change.