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An Inupiaq elder teaches his great-grandson to hunt in rapidly warming Northwest Alaska where thinning ice, shifting caribou migrations and severe storms are reshaping life. A mining road recently approved by the Trump administration adds another threat: it will cut through key caribou and salmon habitat and risks opening the region to outside hunters, which would further devastate already declining herds. The elder worries whether the next generation will have animals to hunt and whether the culture he’s dedicated his life to can survive.