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Relocation of Alaska's sinking Newtok village halted

2013-08-05 14:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: An Alaskan village's quest to move to higher ground and avoid being drowned by climate change has sputtered to a halt, The Guardian has learned. Newtok, on the Bering Sea coast, is sinking and the highest point in the village the school which sits perched atop 20ft pilings - could be underwater by 2017. But the village's relocation effort broke down this summer because of an internal political conflict and a freeze on government funds. The Guardian wrote about the strains placed on Newtok by...

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