Associated Press: Tony Weyiouanna remembers a time when people played beach baseball in his village on Alaska's storm-battered western coast. Now, there's barely enough room for hopscotch on Shishmaref's eroding waterfront.
Erosion in the village and other coastal Alaska communities is an escalating problem blamed on climate change that has affected storm patterns in the region. The impact on their environment was the message carried by Weyiouanna and four other residents from the Inupiat Eskimo community who traveled...