On the eve of President Obama’s planned visit to Alaska, The Dispatch News tells a poignant story “Slowly, a village relocates” exposing the real and present effects of climate change on some 350 residents of Newtok.
Internal disputes and funding issues have slowed the needed migration, and put severe strain on the community of Newtok. Some 186 native Alaskan villages – or 86% of all native communities in Alaska – are currently threatened by climate change, according to a recent government report.
Alaskan Native communities, like this small village 500 miles west of Anchorage, are increasingly threatened by flooding, erosion, and rising water along the coastlines. Climate change impacts risk access to food and adequate water, increasingly threatening basic health and livelihood for those already living near subsistence.
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