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This Indigenous Community Records the Climate Change That Is Causing Its Town to Erode Away

Science Quickly

Scientific American

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4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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In a tiny village north of the Arctic Circle in the Northwest Territories, the Inuvialuit of Tuktoyaktuk have taken climate science into their own hands.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:11.0

So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas.

0:16.5

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0:22.4

So what's behind you right now? What's behind me? It's all, it's our own grounds for

0:30.9

our garage will be falling into the ocean probably next year

0:35.7

because it's it lost five feet this year of ground. And then Tuktoyuktuktuk, aka Tuk.

0:55.0

It's a tiny village 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle in the Northwest Territories in Canada.

1:00.0

I'm talking to William Dillon Jr. aka Billy. He's a respected elder in the

1:06.5

Inouvi Allowit community that lives here and also the sweetest guy. Within

1:11.3

moments of meeting us he made us delicious smoke tea, and now he's taking

1:15.8

us on a tour. But it's a tour of what it used to be.

1:20.0

Our old school and old folks home is next to go in our graveyard. We've moved our graveyard already

1:29.2

but we haven't moved the people in the graveyard yet.

1:33.0

That's our next step.

1:35.0

His community is being taken back by the ocean in real time, but he's not just watching it happen, he's

1:40.5

documenting it.

1:42.4

It's just basically recording, recording,

1:47.0

recording, monitoring, just make sure that everybody's aware of how fast it is melting.

1:57.2

I'm Josh Bentley and this is part two

1:59.7

in our three-part science quickly fascination series from a fast-warming Arctic.

2:05.2

In today's episode, I'm riding with a new Vialowick climate monitors.

2:09.9

These inspiring

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