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World Service,2 mins
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Arctic warming is talking its toll on the communities and animals that live on the Siberian tundra, from infrastructure damage to loss of life, eroding land and endangering thousand-year-old cultures and traditional knowledge. Dr Zoia Vylka Ravna, Nenets-born anthropologist and educator, has lived on the tundra. She describes the challenges posed by an increasingly unpredictable climate and how dangerous infections, released by a melting permafrost, are threatening life there. Photo: Dr. Zoia Vylka Ravna, Nenets-born anthropologist and educator Credit: Stine Barlindhaug
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