"A lot of these places were destined to have erosion problems from the day they were built,"

"A lot of these places were destined to have erosion problems from the day they were built," said Orson Smith, an Arctic engineering professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage.


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Historically the natives led a nomadic type of life in these regions - one reason was the food the other was the variable climate.

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