For generations, the Yupik Eskimos have endured the harsh winters of Alaska in the costal town of Newtok.  While one would think that after all the bitter cold, these people might enjoy, a bit of warmth, global warming is actually causing the entire town to move nine miles up the river. 

As global warming continues, the problems in this village have incresed.  Dependant upon ice shelves and the frozen subteranin soils to prevent flooding, the village has found that the warming of planet earth has melted their protection.

Recently the village of 340 voted to move the entire town upriver about nine miles because of the problems caused by golobal warming.  The village has experienced erosion and sinking due to flooding allowed by the melting.  Unfortunately, Newtok may not be the only village to have to move due to man’s empact on the palnet.  In immediate danger are 26 other villages in Alaska, with another 60 under threat during the next decade. 

According to the U.S. Army Corp of engineers the cost to move Newtok will be $130 million.  Global warming also affects other parts of the world as melting glaciers cause the shrinking of available croplands in island countires.  According the the United Nations, global warming will displace 150 million persons by mid-century.