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Apr 2020
20m 7s

Sweden’s climate solution is now the Sám...

Al Jazeera
About this episode

For the Sámi indigenous people, the year begins in spring when the reindeer calves are born. Nature guides how they live their lives, but they can't read nature like they used to. A warming planet is threatening their way of life in northern Sweden, and efforts to save their land and the reindeer are reigniting old tensions with the Swedish government.

In this episode:

Paul Rhys (@pallerhys), Al Jazeera journalist based in Sweden.

For more:

Sweden’s indigenous Sami people threatened by climate change

Climate change: The state of our atmosphere

Climate change or coronavirus? 'Pick your evil', protesters say

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