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2. Native nations on front lines of climate change share ... - AOL

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   Jeanette Kiokun, the tribal clerk for the Qutekcak Native Tribe in Alaska, doesn't immediately recognize the shriveled, brown plant she finds on the shore of the Salish Sea or others that were ...

3. Climate change destroyed an Alaska village. Its residents are ...

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   EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part of a series on how tribes and Indigenous communities are coping with and combating climate change. Newtok village leaders began searching for a new townsite more than two decades ago, ultimately swapping land with the federal government for a place 9 miles (14.48 kilometers) away on the stable volcanic ...

4. Biden administration commits millions of dollars to relocate ...

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   The Biden administration announced Wednesday a $135 million commitment to helping to relocate Native American tribes whose homes are threatened by the effects of climate change. Using money from ...

5. Climate change and indigenous peoples - Wikipedia

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   These communities have adapted to climate change in the past and have knowledge that non-indigenous people can utilize to adapt to climate change in the future. [6] More recently, an increasing number of climate scientists and indigenous activists advocate for the inclusion of TEK into research regarding climate change policy and adaptation ...

6. Kivalina, Alaska - Wikipedia

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   The island on which the village lies is threatened by rising sea levels and coastal erosion caused by climate change. As of 2013, it is predicted that the island will be inundated by 2025. [8] In addition to well-publicized impacts of climate change, the Village of Kivalina has been a party in several environmentally related court cases.

7. Finding safe haven in the climate change future: Alaska and ...

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   Calculating climate risk depends on a dizzying number of factors, and this installment of the series studies what's ahead for the two U.S. states separated from the lower 48.

8. Newtok, Alaska - Wikipedia

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   Newtok (Central Yupik: Niugtaq) is a small village on the Ningliq River in the Bethel Census Area, Alaska, United States. At the 2010 census, the population was 354, up from 321 in 2000. Climate change is forcing the primarily Central Yup'ik Alaska Native village to consider relocation. [2] [3] Mertarvik is the destination of those leaving the ...

9. Climate change in Alaska - Wikipedia

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   Hog Butte Fire, Alaska, June 2022 Sign thanking firefighters, Deshka Landing Fire, 2019. In August 2016, the Environmental Protection Agency reported that "[o]ver the past 60 years, most of the state has warmed three degrees (F) on average and six degrees during winter" [1] As a result of this temperature increase, the EPA noted that "Arctic sea ice is retreating, shores are eroding, glaciers ...