Al Jazeera
Climate change forces indigenous Alaskans to relocate
Published: Dec 8, 2019
Crawled: Mar 19, 2024 at 8:40 PM
Length: 74 words
Article Content
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.
Article Details
- Article ID
- 7513
- Article Name
- climate-change-forces-indigenous-alaskans-to-relocate
- Date Published
- Dec 8, 2019
- Date Crawled
- Mar 19, 2024 at 8:40 PM
- Newspaper Website
- aljazeera.com