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The Canadian Arctic community of Tuktoyaktuk in the Northwest Territories, Canada. Seas rising from global warming and land sinking as permafrost thaws are threatening the Canadian Arctic community. A beach barrier of small boulders has slowed the erosion of the peninsula, upper left. Geologists believe the protective Tuktoyaktuk Island, upper right, will erode away in 30-40 years, exposing the hamlet more to Arctic Ocean waves.

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The Canadian Arctic community of Tuktoyaktuk in the Northwest Territories, Canada. Seas rising from global warming and land sinking as permafrost thaws are threatening the Canadian Arctic community. A beach barrier of small boulders has slowed the erosion of the peninsula, upper left. Geologists believe the protective Tuktoyaktuk Island, upper right, will erode away in 30-40 years, exposing the hamlet more to Arctic Ocean waves.

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Arctic villagers on front line against climate change

Published: September 8th, 2009 09:11 AM
Last Modified: September 8th, 2009 12:32 PM

Link: The Associated Press via L.A. Times Caught between rising seas and land melting beneath their mukluk-shod feet, the villagers of Tuktoyaktuk in Canada's Northwest Territories are doing what anyone would do on this windy Arctic coastline about 200 miles east of the Alaska border: They're building windmills. It's a token of irony, too: People little to blame, but feeling it most, are doing more to stop global warming than many of "you people in the south," as Mayor Merven Gruben calls the rest of us who fill the skies with greenhouse gases.

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