Jae C Hong & Luis Andres Henao SHISHMAREF (AP) – “Home sweet home”. That’s how Helen Kakoona calls her Alaska native village of Shishmaref when asked what it means to live on a remote barrier island near the Arctic Circle. Her home and the traditional lifestyle kept for thousands of years is in peril, vulnerable […]
About 600 people live in a small village on an island off the coast of the U.S. state of Alaska. The combination of climate change and lack of local resources has led to a food and water shortage that might force residents to flee.