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PBS News Hour

Rapidly thawing permafrost threatens remote Alaskan villages

Season 2025 Episode 293 | 6m 41s

In the Arctic tundra of Alaska, climate change is forcing an Alaska Native village to relocate. Rising temperatures are melting the underground permafrost. The melted ice then mixes with the soil, creating unstable land the Yupʼik people call Alaskan quicksand. Amalia Huot-Marchand and a team from the Medill School of Journalism report.

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