- 86 percent of people in the U.S Arctic, which includes territory north of the Arctic Circle as well as the Bering Sea and part of the Aleutian Islands, live along the coast.
- Indigenous peoples of Alaska include at least 20 language groups and several hundred villages and tribal groups.
- The Alaskan Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the United States. Higher temperatures have caused sea ice to shrink 13 percent per decade since 1978.
