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December 26, 2006

Global warming hits home in Alaska

  • The corps says three villages may have to move within 10- to 15-years but no one knows who will pay the $355 million cost.
    • By RACHEL D’ORO
    Associated Press Writer

    AP Photo/Al Grillo
    Erosion along the Ninglick River at Newtok, Alaska, has long been a problem for the village 480 miles west of Anchorage and scores of other Alaska communities. Erosion is attacking Shishmaref, Kivalina and Newtok so rapidly that residents could be forced to seek refuge somewhere else in a decade.

    NEWTOK, Alaska — The last time chronic flooding forced this tiny Alaska village to relocate, sled dogs pulled the old church to its new home three miles away, far from the raging Ninglick River.


     
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