Smaller fuel barrels were tossed around and at least one leaked. The Alaska National Guard was in Newtok a few days after the storm. While in the village, they removed nearly 900 pounds of debris ...

Newly built houses stand on a bluff above the Ninglick River in Mertarvik, Alaska—Newtok’s new village site—after a busy 2019 construction season. (Madeline Ostrander) By signing up ...

(Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) The Yup’ik village of Newtok, perched precariously on thawing permafrost at the edge of the rapidly eroding Ninglick River, is the first Alaska community to ...

They will become one of the first Alaska Native villages to complete a large scale relocation because of climate change. Newtok village leaders began searching for a new townsite more than two ...

Last week, as Carolyn George slept in her home in the small United States town of Newtok, Alaska, a scary sound jolted her awake. “I heard a really loud bump,” George recalled in an interview ...

The storm that struck western Alaska last month severely damaged the tiny Native village of Newtok. Emily Schwing reports on the race for residents to outrun the effects of climate change.

They will become one of the first Alaska Native villages to complete a large-scale relocation because of climate change. Newtok village leaders began searching for a new townsite more than two ...

Charles Alexie stands along the coastal erosion that has eaten away at the riverbanks on Friday, Aug. 16, 2024, in Newtok, Alaska. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) ...

Erosion and melting permafrost have just about destroyed the Alaska village of Newtok.... Climate change destroyed an Alaska village. Its residents are starting over in a new town ...

according to a report in January from the the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium. Six of them — Kivalina, Koyukuk, Newtok, Shaktoolik, Shishmaref and Unalakleet — were deemed imminently ...