Alaska’s Climate Refugees

Published On: September 2, 2015
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This is climate change: Alaskan villagers struggle as island is chewed up by the sea.

LA Times: In this town of 403 residents 83 miles above the Arctic Circle, beaches are disappearing, ice is melting, temperatures are rising, and the barrier reef Kivalina calls home gets smaller and smaller with every storm.

There is no space left to build homes for the living. The dead are now flown to the mainland so the ocean won’t encroach upon their graves. Most here agree that the town should be relocated; where, when and who will pay for it are the big questions. The Army Corps of Engineers figures Kivalina will be underwater in the next decade or so.

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Chris Machens
Chris covers the climate since 2011, and when not posting articles to the site he usually works on our next video production.
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