Some communities build sea walls or similar structures for temporary protection for others, relocation is the only option.īut moving even a small village is a difficult endeavor that disrupts lives and traditions. In Alaska, flooding and erosion affect more than 85 percent of native villages. No one is more affected than indigenous people, who make up about 10 percent of the Arctic population. To the Arctic and its 4 million residents, climate change is less a future threat than a present reality of coastal erosion, flooding, wildfires, declining fisheries and changing routes of wild animal migration. As the ice and snow melt, ocean levels rise while the Earth absorbs more sunlight and gets hotter. The Arctic is warming at twice the average rate of anywhere else.
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