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Traditional lifestyle is vulnerable to climate change effects

Climate change is partially to blame for the rising seas, flooding, erosion and loss of protective ice and land that are threatening this Inupiat village of about 600 people just a few miles from the Arctic Circle. But residents have voted to stay, twice.

The Arctic had been warming twice as fast as the globe as a whole, 3 times in some seasons

Search online for the little town of Shishmaref and youll see homes perilously close to the ocean, and headlines that warn this Native community in western Alaska is on the verge of disappearing.

Shishmaref, Alaska is located on a sinking barrier island in the Chukchi Sea near the Bering Strait that separates the U.S. and Russia, where it is threatened by the effects of climate change.

The Arctic had been warming twice as fast as the globe as a whole, 3 times in some seasons

The Arctic had been warming twice as fast as the globe as a whole, 3 times in some seasons

The Arctic had been warming twice as fast as the globe as a whole, 3 times in some seasons

The Arctic had been warming twice as fast as the globe as a whole, 3 times in some seasons

The Arctic had been warming twice as fast as the globe as a whole, 3 times in some seasons