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Climate change forces indigenous Alaskans to relocate

Published: Dec 8, 2019 Crawled: Mar 19, 2024 at 8:40 PM Length: 74 words
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Why some indigenous Alaskans are fleeing their ancestral land as it crumbles beneath them. After centuries of living on their ancestral land, rising river levels have forced a group of indigenous Alaskans to abandon their homes. Climate change has triggered stronger storms causing the land to crumble away. Al Jazeeras Heidi Zhou-Castro travelled to the town of Newtok to learn of the financial and emotional toll of finding a new place to live.

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7513
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climate-change-forces-indigenous-alaskans-to-relocate
Date Published
Dec 8, 2019
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Mar 19, 2024 at 8:40 PM
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