Alaskan town :Newtok’s 400 residents will have to move because of climate change

[arista]

[‘It was sad having to leave’:
Climate crisis splits Alaskan town in half
All of Newtok’s 400 residents will have to move
to higher ground but funding shortages
and Covid means some are being left behind]


https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/08/it-was-sad-having-to-leave-climate-crisis-splits-alaskan-town-in-half



A film crew Filmed it
Talking was just on Times radio.


Sadly another 37
Towns will have to go

[Crimson Dynamo]

that dreadful Guardian article has crap images

this is much better

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/climate-change-finally-caught-up-to-this-alaska-village

[arista]

Thanks LT,



Sadly Funding has all gone, some remain there

[Crimson Dynamo]

very hard place to live

[arista]

very hard place to live


Yes the Lucky ones have moved
9 miles away onto higher, safer ground.

[user104658]

So to clarify from the articles, this story is about the effect of global warming melting permafrost that lies under many of these sorts of areas (essentially turning the area from solid ground into soft ground that can’t support buildings).

It’s not about rising sea levels, as the poster’s confusing title implies.

[arista]

OK TS
title now corrected.

Thank You.