Relocation of eroding Alaska Native village seen as a test case

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Relocation of eroding Alaska Native village seen as a test case

Yereth RosenAlaska BeaconThe Yup’ik village of Newtok, perched precariously on thawing permafrost at the edge of the rapidly eroding Ninglick River, is the first Alaska community to begin a full-scale relocation made necessary by climate change.Still, the progress of moving to a new village site that is significantly outpacing relocation efforts at other vulnerable Alaska communities, remains agonizingly slow, say those who are in the throes of …