2023 Arctic Report Card calls for immediate action
Credit: Under clear skies with blowing winds, crews in Point Hope, Alaska are at the shorefast sea ice edge for the spring whaling season. On 7 April 2023, Guy Norman Omnik reported “-11°F, mostly cloudy, north winds 10 mph. Poyuaqpanguu! – first [bowhead] whale sighting.” (Photo credit: Guy Norman Omnik, courtesy of 2023 Arctic Report Card chapter on Nunaaqqit Savaqatigivlugich: Working With Communities to Observe the Arctic).
