The project’s challenges highlight how ill-prepared the U.S. is to respond to the way climate change is making some places ...

The relocation highlights America’s failure to prepare for the ways climate change is making some places uninhabitable.

An Alaskan village moved to escape erosion caused by climate change now faces unsafe housing and limited resources, exposing ...

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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) Fifteen years ago ...

A storm that hit western Alaska last month severely damaged the tiny Native village of Newtok. Prior to the storm, residents had already begun relocating the village to higher ground. The storm ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...