Rangers want equipment to deal with climate change

The Canadian Rangers need new equipment to navigate a vast terrain they barely recognize anymore.

A new report says global warming has so altered the Arctic that the Canadian Rangers — largely aboriginal reservists who patrol the North — need new equipment to navigate a vast terrain they barely recognize anymore, The Hamilton Spectators reports:

The frozen land of their forefathers now has much thinner sea ice, weather that is no longer predictable, unfamiliar southern birds and mammals that have migrated north, and traditional game that is disappearing and tastes funny.

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