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Jane Clark

Alaska, No Longer So Frigid, Starts to Crack, Burn and Sag

By TIMOTHY EGAN, NY Times.
ANCHOR POINT, Alaska, June 13 - "To live in Alaska when the average
temperature has risen about seven degrees over the last 30 years means
learning to cope with a landscape that can sink, catch fire or break apart
in the turn of a season. In the village of Shishmaref, on the Chukchi Sea
just south of the Arctic Circle, it means high water eating away so many
houses and buildings that people will vote next month on moving the entire
village inland. In Barrow, the northernmost city in North America, it means
coping with mosquitoes in a place where they once were nonexistent, and
rescuing hunters trapped on breakaway ice at a time of year when such things
once were unheard of . . . "
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/16/national/16ALAS.html

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