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The Arctic Sounder - Serving the Northwest Arctic and the North Slope
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The Arctic Sounder - Serving the Northwest Arctic and the North Slope
The Arctic Sounder - Serving the Northwest Arctic and the North Slope
While land is rapidly eroding and the coastal lines are shifting, a third of Alaska Native villages are seeing major consequences and very little help.
It's winter in Shishmaref, Alaska, an Inupiat village on Sarichef, an eroding barrier island in the Chukchi Sea, just north of the Bering Strait. Shishmaref is one of about 30 villages in Alaska that lack running water as well as sewage and solid waste disposal systems. "If you want water, you drive by snow machine…
WASHINGTON - It's winter in Shishmaref, Alaska, an Inupiat village on Sarichef, an eroding barrier island in the Chukchi Sea, just north of the Berin