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Newtok, Alaska
Newtok (''Niugtaq '' in Central Alaskan Yup'ik) is a village on the Ninglick River in western Alaska, United States. At the 2010 census the population was 354. Erosion is forcing the primarily Yupik Alaska Native village to consider relocation. The town was featured in History Channel's Tougher in Alaska, episode "Dangerous Earth".〔(www.history.com "ABOUT TOUGHER IN ALASKA" )〕 In 2007 the ''New York Times'' reported that erosion made Newtok an island between the widening Ninglick River and a slough to the north because Alaskan permafrost is melting due to climate change.〔(Victim of Climate Change, a Town Seeks a Lifeline ), William Yardley, ''New York Times'', May 27, 2007.〕 According to the ''Times'', because the village is below sea-level and sinking, the town could be washed away within a decade.〔
==Geography==
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , of which, of it is land and of it (7.21%) is water.
Erosion of the tundra by the River has destroyed much of the area of the village including the barge dock. Land has been acquired for a new townsite called Mertarvik on nearby Nelson Island about away, and $1 million in government funding has been obtained to build a dock for delivering building supplies.〔(www.adn.com "State gives $3 million to fight Newtok erosion" )〕
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