Canadian Arctic Snow School hopes to boost climate fight

Arctic Snow School participants Annelise Waling (right) and Ben Sullender on the second day of field work at the Canadian High Arctic Research Station. They are measuring the temperature of the snow pit they carved out, which will help understand snow density and texture [Meral Jamal/Al Jazeera]

Reporting for this story was made possible through the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting’s Persephone Miel Fellowship.

Iqaluktuuttiaq, Nunavut, Canada – Marie Dumont’s face is flush. It is a windy Tuesday afternoon in the small hamlet of Iqaluktuuttiaq, in Canada’s northern territory of Nunavut, and the temperature outside is roughly -25 degrees Celsius (-13 degrees Fahrenheit).