Alaska Native villages have few options and little US help as climate change devours their land

Storms that battered Alaska’s western coast this fall have brought renewed attention to low-lying Indigenous villages left ...
Alaska Public Media

Alaska advocates for climate-vulnerable villages call for action in wake of devastating storm

According to a recent story from the Northern Journal, an estimate from 2020 put the cost of protecting infrastructure in ...
Yahoo

Dangerously hot in Alaska? New warnings show climate change impact.

Websites can be scrubbed of climate change references and the U.S. halted from international and national climate assessments, but rising temperatures leave their own evidence, especially in the ...
Anchorage Daily NewsOpinion

Typhoons and other climate threats could cost Alaska billions. After Halong, advocates say it’s time to act.

A study published before the storm said there’s an $80 million-a-year gap in money needed to protect or move coastal ...

In Alaska, fishers struggle to keep orcas from their catch

UNALASKA, Alaska — The orca pod that forages in the waters just north of this Aleutian island are quick to swarm any halibut ...

Crews are working to fix Alaska Native villages devastated by flooding. But will residents return?

KWIGILLINGOK, Alaska (AP) — Darrel John watched the final evacuees depart his village on the western coast of Alaska in helicopters and small planes and walked home, avoiding the debris piled on the ...
Alaska Dispatch News

Natural changes are only part of Alaska’s climate change story

Last week, I sent out a story on changes in Alaska over the past few million years. The theme: Many of the transitions were drastic, and they all had nothing to do with the billions of us now walking ...

From New Zealand to New York, people and communities are moving to avoid climate disasters

In the face of floods, wildfires and other natural disasters, when should a community relocate to avoid potential harm?
Corvallis Gazette-Times

Climate change could doom Alaska's tundra

In the next 100 years, Alaska will experience a massive loss of its historic tundra, as global warming allows these vast regions of cold, dry, lands to support forests and other vegetation that will ...
Los Angeles Times

Climate change likely culprit in Alaska snow crab collapse

Alaskan officials recently canceled the Bering Sea snow crab season for the first time ever after scientists discovered an unprecedented decline in crab numbers. Climate change is the No. 1 suspect in ...
PBS

Permafrost thawed by climate change threatens remote villages in Alaska

In the Arctic tundra of Alaska, climate change is forcing an Alaska Native village to relocate. Rising temperatures are melting the underground permafrost. The melted ice then mixes with the soil, ...
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Scientists offer guidelines for coping with climate change in Alaska

The interdisciplinary team of ecologists and social scientists put forward broad strategic guidelines for dealing with dramatically warmer temperatures in Alaska. “Alaska is way ahead of most of the ...