27 mins, 2003
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America's coldest, richest state is warming ten times faster than the rest of the world.
"That ice should be four feet thick", confirms a hunter who catches walrus. "Now it's only one foot thick". Eslewhere houses and roads collapse as the ground beneath them melts. The US government now plans to drill for oil in a wildlife refuge.
Native Alaskans are divided. Eskimos want jobs and money, but the Gwitchin Indians fear it will destroy their reindeer.
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