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 ...
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 ...

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 ...
USC Center for Health Journalism

Author Michael Kodas shares advice for reporting on growing health threats on a warming planet

A veteran storyteller draws on a lifetime of covering wildfires and other climate disasters. "The important stories that we ...

Anchorage performers take on climate crisis through art

Across the world, those involved in the performing arts are gathering to bring awareness to climate change through their art.
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, ...
Grist

Native Alaska villages were already on the front lines of climate change. Then a typhoon hit.

A week after Typhoon Halong passed through Japan in early October, its remnants crossed the Pacific and struck western Alaska. Nearly 50 Alaska Native communities across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta near ...
Center on Budget and Policy PrioritiesOpinion

States Should Use Funding Available Pre- and Post-Disaster to Build Long-Term Resilience to Climate Change

Executive SummaryWhat Can States Do?Foster cross-agency coordination on hazard mitigation and climate adaptationRequire ...

Environment and health: A connection that remains unseen in the Climate Change Conferences

In a conversation with Luciana Julião, environment editor at The Conversation Brasil, during COP30 in Belém, Fiocruz researcher and environmental health specialist Sandra Hacon explained why the ...