Our World Now: Witness in the Arctic
April 27th 2010 21:04
Pictures of a Russian Arctic tribe at risk from gas projects from the latest Reuters book Our World Now.
Nenets catch reindeer with a lasso on the Yamal peninsula, north of the polar circle, August 4, 2009.
The Nenets tribespeople of Russia's frozen Yamal peninsula have survived the age of the Tsars, the Bolshevik revolution and the chaotic 1990s, but now confront their biggest challenge -- under their fur-bundled feet is enough gas to heat the world for five years.
Credit: REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov
The link will take you to this endangered species.
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