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| | US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation |
 | | As such, climate change in the Arctic is a human and cultural, as well as an environmental issue, which they report will in the long-term threaten the very existence of Inuit as a hunting culture. |
 | | Caribou (North American forms of Rangifer tarandus) and reindeer (Eurasian forms of the same species) are of primary importance to inland peoples throughout the Arctic for food, clothing, shelter, fuel, tools, and other cultural items. |
 | | In addition to an overview of the Assessment by the many of the authors of the Assessment, other potential authors of papers are invited to submit abstracts that extend the insights of the Assessment. |
| commerce.senate.gov /hearings/testimony.cfm?id=1080&wit_id=3053 (4831 words) |
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