by Nadia Teskrat

The residents of this island village eat dried seal meat, sell animal skins and hop on snowmobiles to hunt down polar bears and caribou.

But the age-old traditions of Shishmaref are threatened by global warming, which has already forced the 600 residents to vote to move to the continent as the sea chips away at the village's eroding shore.

The receding ice in the Arctic will cause certain animals such as polar bears, walruses and seals to become rare, according to Robert Corell, who wrote a study on climate change's impact on the Arctic.