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Our topics focus on the intersection of ship emission, air pollution in arctic area, and their impact on seabirds, such as arctic tern. The research starts with the global impact of on air pollution caused by ship emission. Shipping emissions and icebreakers indirectly or directly damage the Arctic ice and accelerate the melting of the ice, which changes the hunting trails that the Inuit have inherited for hundreds of years. For the proposal, we imagine a floating island as breeding platforms for arctic tern, simultaneously serving as a connection between Inuit permanent and their hunting areas across the sea, and also a blockage in terms of fishing vessels or other ships passing through the Arctic, especially in Inuit homeland: Modular platforms of different functions provide an extension of breeding space of the Arctic Tern and other migratory birds, which can not only combined as a whole one to block the vessels but also can be split, so that the ship can pass through when it gets permission of Inuit people.