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Bookmark or Share- How far can $25 million go to relocate a community that’s disappearing ...Niugtaq — the Yup’ik name for Newtok, Alaska — means “rustling grass” in Yugtun, the local Yup’ik language. That’s the sound you hear when you step off the small commuter plane that lands here...
- Climate change destroyed an Alaska village. Its residents are starting ...Erosion and melting permafrost have just about destroyed the Alaska village of Newtok. About 70 feet of land has been disappearing each year, and all that remains are some dilapidated and largely abandoned gray homes scraped bare of paint by salty winds of Bering Sea storms.
- Relocation of eroding Alaska Native village seen as a test caseThe 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...
- Residents Of An Eroded Alaskan Village Are Pioneering A New One ... - NPRAs climate change eroded the village of Newtok, its residents started making plans to move it. Many years and millions of dollars later, they are beginning the process of relocating across the...
- Climate change has finally caught up Newtok, Alaska - National GeographicNewtok is the first community in Alaska that has already begun relocation as a result of climate change, pioneering a process that many other Alaskan villages may soon be...
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