Climate change is forcing an isolated Alaskan village, roughly 80 miles above the Arctic Circle, to relocate.
The very existence of Kivalina, a town with about 400 residents on a tiny barrier island off Alaska’s northwest coast, is under threat as Arctic sea ice continues to melt into the surrounding Chukchi Sea.
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