How Ice Melting In Alaska Impacts Us All



Aug 23, 2020
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Native Alaskan Inupiat elder Patricia Cochran, director of the Alaska Native Science Commission, shows how the melting ice caps are eroding the coastal permafrost in Alaska, causing homes to fall into the ocean.

Learn more about what's happening in Alaska and the Arctic at nativescience.org and aiannhcaucus.com

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NOME, AK - JULY 13: Trudy Sobocienski (L) catches up with Marjo
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Polar Bear Statue on Building in Nome
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Nome, Alaska
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King Island village
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The Bering Sea
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Salmon hung to dry
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NOME, AK - JULY 13: Marjorie Tahbone, 21, chops wood at her fam
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Aerial View - Ice Face of LeConte Glacier in Alaska
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Nome village from distance in Alaska during winter
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Sunset in Wales, Alaska
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Blizzard in the village of Nome during winter
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Close-up shot of a road with falling raindrops
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Slow motion of salmon fish jumping at the Brooks Falls in Alaska
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Slow motion sockeye salmon leaps in rainy river, Alaska, 2011
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Ice floes on the sea surface, Kaktovik, Alaska, United States
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Aerial View - Ice From Calving Face of Dawes Glacier in Alaska
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Slow Motion/Forward: Splashing, Quick Moving Stream Over Rocky Ground In Glacier Cave - Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska
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AERIAL Lower Manhattan
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Houses on Coast
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Roadside Community Spirit COVID-19 Sign
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Glacier Bay
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Silhouettes of smoke stacks of coal plant at sunset
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House rooftop solar power panels.
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Slow motion of whale jumping out of water in Alaska
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