12024-08-16T15:09:03+00:00Jinkai Ge12852fac948f9ad867ddc6f7ca240f26bac01ef91383Climate change poses a new threat to Indigenous lands by causing extreme weather and environmental changes that disrupt traditional ways of life and endanger their land.plain2024-08-16T15:09:39+00:00Jinkai Ge12852fac948f9ad867ddc6f7ca240f26bac01ef9
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12024-08-16T15:10:18+00:00Climate Change: A New Threat to Indigenous Lands2Climate change poses a new threat to Indigenous lands by causing extreme weather and environmental changes that disrupt traditional ways of life and endanger their land.plain2024-08-16T15:10:24+00:00Climate change is exacerbating an already precarious situation faced by indigenous communities. Rising sea levels, changing weather patterns, and increasingly frequent natural disasters threaten their lands. Indeed, some communities in the Pacific Islands are actually being swamped by rising ocean levels.
While climate change has an environmental problem for these communities, it is also an emerging cultural one. Many indigenous peoples have ways of life that are closely linked to the environment. As it changes, they lose not just their homes but also their traditions and ways of living.
However, despite all this, indigenous communities are adapting. They are using their traditional knowledge to come up with new survival strategies. For example, some Pacific Island communities are starting to grow salt-tolerant crops as a result of soil salinization caused by rising sea levels, while in the Arctic, Inuit hunters post real-time information on ice conditions using social media, thus helping each other to stay safe in a changing environment.