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Julie Depenbrock

This is what's at risk from climate change in Alaska

In the coastal community of Kotzebue, Alaska, climate change is threatening the way of life for Native communities who have been living there for generations. (Prisma Bildagentur/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The Arctic is warming faster than any place on earth. For Indigenous communities in Alaska, that means adapting to the changing climate, or moving elsewhere.

"Alaska Native communities and our people are on the front lines of climate change," says Jackie Qataliña Schaeffer, who co-authored a recent federal report on Arctic warming. Schaeffer, an Inupiaq from the coastal community of Kotzebue, has seen her home change drastically over the decades.

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