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The remote Alaskan village that needs to be relocated due to climate change

2015-02-25 02:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Washington Post: This tiny and isolated town of 400 cannot be reached by road. It lies on a fragile barrier island along the Chukchi Sea, 83 miles above the Arctic circle. And for generations, the Iupiat people of the region have hunted gigantic bowhead whales from camps atop the sea ice that stretches out from the towns icy shores. But in recent years, climate change has thinned the ice so much that it has become too dangerous to hunt the whales. Soon, the U.S. government says, it may be too dangerous to live...

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