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 ...

Frieda and Philip Carl at their home in Newtok, Alaska. Credit: Seth Adams/High Country News NEWTOK’S CRITICAL infrastructure is deteriorating. Waste disposal is a major challenge. There is no ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 begin a full-scale relocation made ...

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 ...

2023 in Newtok, Alaska. (Emily Schwing/KYUK) A team with the Bureau of Indian Affairs made a rare visit to Newtok by snowmachine Wednesday, after meeting with tribal council members nine miles ...