Emily J Gertz

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Inuit fight climate change with human-rights claim against U.S.

Grist—An Inuit group is taking on the world’s most recalcitrant greenhouse-gas emitter, the country the Inuit say is driving them extinct: the United States of America. The move could be a major step towards, as Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier puts it, “defending our right to be cold.”