As ice melts, as court briefs fly, the white bear will hold center stage in climate dramaTUKTOYAKTUK, Northwest Territories — Henry Jr. slept in the arms of his father the unhappy hunter, who pondered the future of the boy born last Arctic winter, in the depths of a polar bear season he’d rather forget. Killer whales, robins, rising seas: Climate is changing and tiny ‘Tuk’ mans the front lineTUKTOYAKTUK, Northwest Territories — Caught between rising seas and land melting beneath their mukluk-shod feet, the villagers of Tuktoyaktuk are doing what anyone would do on this windy Arctic coastline. They’re building windmills. |