Relocation of eroding Alaska Native village seen as a test case for other threatened communities

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Relocation of eroding Alaska Native village seen as a test case for other threatened communities • Alaska Beacon

The "Newtok Mothers" assembled as a panel at the Arctic Encounter Symposium on April 11, 2024, discuss the progress and challenges as village residents move from the eroding and thawing old site to a new village site called Mertarvik. Photographs showing deteriorating conditions in Newtok are displayed on a screen as the women speak at the event, held at Anchorage's Dena'ina Civic and Convention Center. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) The …