Brandt, 49, has been a hunter since age 14, and said roughly 20 years ago, when winter sea ice became too thin to support dogsleds, seal hunting ceased to be a sustainable way of life here.

49岁的布兰德从14岁就开始打猎，他说，大约20年前，当冬天海上的冰变得太薄，不再能够承受狗拉雪橇以后，猎海豹不再是这里一种持续的生活方式。

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Last year, the ice was so thin that a young hunter and his dog team of 12 fell through to their deaths.

然而去年，冰层变得如此之薄，一位年轻的狩猎者和他12条猎犬竟葬身于断裂的冰层下。

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A hunter in Germany has put on show a block of ice containing a fox that he says fell into the chilly Danube and drowned, in what he calls a warning of the dangers of the icy river.

德国的一位猎人展示了一大块冰块中嵌着一只狐狸的图片，据称这只狐狸掉进了冰冷的多瑙河，被淹死了，他想借此警告大家，冰冻的河水非常危险。

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We saw and heard about the impacts, from slumping land due to the melting of permafrost to hunter stories about the northward migration of species and the challenge that early ice break up poses for transportation.

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