Nowhere to Go Amid Alaska’s Melting Ice – The New York Times

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Nowhere to Go Amid Alaska’s Melting Ice

With tides rising from climate change and with money tight, villagers on an Alaskan barrier island are unsure how, or when, they will relocate.

via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/03/04/nima-taradji-alaska-climate-ice/

Alaska’s Chukchi Sea was only just starting to freeze when Nima Taradji arrived at the Inupiat village of Shishmaref last December. Situated on a narrow barrier island, Shishmaref was founded over 400 years ago as a seasonal fishing settlement. Cold weather and natural ice barriers used to protect the shore, but now the municipal village, home to some 600 residents, faces the immediate threat of inundation.