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 […]
Rising sea levels, flooding, increased erosion and loss of protective sea ice and land have led residents of Shishmaref, Alaska, to vote twice to relocate