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Managed Retreat of Entire Villages in Alaska

"Kivalina and at least one other imperiled village, Shishmaref, are planning relocations. But only the Yupik Eskimo village of Newtok, about 460 miles south of Kivalina, has begun the actual physical labor of moving." - excerpt from article in the Washington Post.

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