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Indigenous Knowledge of Climate Change
December 23, 2009 | NATGEO News Watch

Shari Gearheard explains how indigenous knowledge can be a valuable contribution to recognizing and documenting climate change in the Arctic. The video accompanies an article on the National Geographic website that describes how native hunters have recognized long term changes in sea ice conditions, wind direction and weather that are of a much finer scale than most scientific observations.


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