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Americas first climate refugees: Its happening now The village is sinking
2013-05-18 14:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: One afternoon in the waning days of winter, the most powerful man in Newtok, Alaska, hopped on a plane and flew 1,000 miles to plead for the survival of his village. Stanley Tom, Newtok`s administrator, had a clear purpose for his trip: find the money to move the village on the shores of the Bering Sea out of the way of an approaching disaster caused by climate change. Newtok was rapidly losing ground to erosion. The land beneath the village was falling into the river. Tom needed money for bulldozers...
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