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Date of Publication: September 3, 2015
Year of Publication: 2015
Publication City: Anchorage, AK
Publisher: Alaska Dispatch Publishing
Author(s): President Barack Obama
Newspaper: Alaska Dispatch News
U.S. President Obama spent three days in Alaska, speaking at the Conference on Global Leadership in the Arctic: Cooperation, Innovation, Engagement and Resilience –GLACIER, and visiting sites where climate change’s effects are present and visible.
On September 2nd, he visited Kotzebue, becoming the first sitting president of the United States to travel north of the Arctic Circle. Located in Northwest Alaska on the coast of the Bering Sea and Kotzebue Sound, Kotzebue and other communities in the area face tremendous threats from thawing permafrost, reduced protective sea ice and shifting resources. Follow the link above to find the full transcript of President Obama’s speech to the community of Kotzebue.
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