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2016-06-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Government regulations forced the Yupik to give up their semi-nomadic existence. Now, as the land around them vanishes, theyre puzzling through the problem of moving. On a Sunday morning in late September, Tom John, a wiry fisherman with a deep, placid gaze, ushers me onto his boat, moored on a riverbank in Newtok village, in southwest Alaska. His wife, Bernice, a sturdy-shouldered woman with a voice as bright as a sparrows, and their nine-year-old grandson clamber in after me. Our footsteps...
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