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Relocation of eroding Alaska Native village seen as a test case for other threatened communities

The Yup’ik village of Newtok, perched precariously on thawing permafrost at the edge of the rapidly eroding Ninglick River, is the first Alaska community to begin a full-scale relocation made necessary by climate change. Still, the progress of moving to a new village site that is significantly outpacing relocation efforts at other vulnerable Alaska communities, […] The post Relocation of eroding Alaska Native village seen as a test case for other threatened communities appeared first on Alaska B ....

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