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Shishref Research Paper

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The Alaskan village of Shishmaref is located on an island Sarichef, which is five miles away from the Seward Peninsula. Shishref is an Inupiat village and, it has been inhabited for several centuries. The men in Shishmaref have hunted for seals by driving out over the sea ice with snowmobiles. Since the early nineteen-nineties, villagers started to notice that the sea level was changing. The ice was starting to form later in the fall, and also to break up earlier in the spring. Now village men have to go out twenty miles further down the shore to hunt the seals. The problem of the changes in the sea ice does not end here. Since the sea started to freeze later, Shishmaref became more vulnerable to storm surges. As a result, the entire village

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