All infrastructure – roads, houses etc. built on the permafrost are slanting, cracking and collapsing. Trees are becoming uprooted on this unstable ground.
The erosion of the coast is accelerating and houses must be moved inland.
The ice pack is much more fragile: the embacle is late in the season and the ice leaves the fjords very early in the season. For the local population, it has become dangerous to travel on the ice pack to hunt or travel between villages.
The polar bear is not spared - it feeds essentially on seals which it hunts through agloos, the holes in the ice where the pinniped comes to breathe. The reduction in the ice pack surface area reduces its hunting ground and its future is at risk. Vegetation, birds and insects are appearing further and further north; the most spectacular proof was the discovery of an interbred bear, half grizzli, half polar bear.
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