K V L P E O P L E

People of Kivalina, Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, are the faces of the effects of climate change in the United States. Kivalina, a city with almost four hundred citizens and localized in an island, will have to be relocated due to the rising of the level of water because of the melting of Arctic. The winters are becoming shorter and warmer. The strong storms and the animals migration changes have caused that the Iñupiat (Native Eskimo) have to adapt their culture gradually to the new circumstances. While they are waiting for that the relocation plan to be a reality in the next years, they are working on the more pressing issues such as emergency evacuations and building an evacuation road. They don’t know how long they can live in Kivalina without risk.