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Alaska's Protective Sea Ice Wall Is Crumbling because of the Climate Crisis

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Scientific American

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4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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A massive storm slammed into Alaska’s western coast, and there was no ice to stop it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:40.3

In September, a massive storm on Alaska's West Coast

0:48.3

brought a surge of water 17 miles inland from the Bering Sea to the Chupic village of Chivak. The storm was crazy.

0:56.0

What was crazy about it?

0:58.0

It flooded down there.

1:02.0

It was like a sea, but...

1:05.0

Some powers turned out, and some people had to sleep at the school for three days.

1:10.9

Just over 900 people live in this community.

1:14.3

It sits on a high bank above the Ninglickfukhavk River.

1:17.4

Elder John Pengayek says the storm shook his resolve.

1:21.4

For three days I was in turmoil because I finally realized how dangerous our situation here in western Alaska is vulnerable from a very high winds

1:40.6

and water search.

1:44.2

The impact of the storm called Murbach is very real for thousands of rural residents in western Alaska.

1:51.6

Dozens of villages saw some level of flooding.

1:55.0

People lost power, causing chest freezers to defrost.

1:58.7

The power outages destroyed months of subsistence food that

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