Whalers, North Alaskans Try to Block Oil Lease Sale
Groups in Alaska have sued the US Interior Department to block an offshore oil and gas lease sale that residents say threatens Arctic marine wildlife and the traditional Inupiat Eskimo way of life.
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/030207EB.shtml
Climate-Change Victims Chip Away US Procrastination
As the ice they depend on for their way of life melts away around them, indigenous people of the Arctic are taking a crack at Washington in international court. Although the Inuit are the first indigenous population to make such a formal claim, human-rights activists say that as the impacts of climate change increase, so too will its toll on human life. And with it, they warn, will come populations seeking redress from the world's big polluters.
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/030207EC.shtml
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Inuit
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/030207EB.shtml
Climate-Change Victims Chip Away US Procrastination
As the ice they depend on for their way of life melts away around them, indigenous people of the Arctic are taking a crack at Washington in international court. Although the Inuit are the first indigenous population to make such a formal claim, human-rights activists say that as the impacts of climate change increase, so too will its toll on human life. And with it, they warn, will come populations seeking redress from the world's big polluters.
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/030207EC.shtml
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Inuit
rudkla - 3. Mär, 14:33
