Archinect - News 2024-12-04T03:50:40-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/78286760/the-alaskan-village-set-to-disappear-under-water-in-a-decade The Alaskan village set to disappear under water in a decade Archinect 2013-07-30T12:18:00-04:00 >2013-07-30T13:08:15-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/08/08fdf1b5c82522ceb8cba8bda0b0bc9d?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Almost no one in America has heard of the Alaskan village of Kivalina. It clings to a narrow spit of sand on the edge of the Bering Sea, far too small to feature on maps of Alaska, never mind the United States. Which is perhaps just as well, because within a decade Kivalina is likely to be under water. Gone, forever. Remembered - if at all - as the birthplace of America's first climate change refugees.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>