Documenting an Alaska village, before and after the storm that destroyed it

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Alaska’s oil renaissance has arrived at the doorstep of an Iñupiaq village

The Iñupiaq village of Nuiqsut has contended for decades with the westward expansion of oil development on Alaska’s North ...
Yahoo

Native Alaska villages were already on the frontlines 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 ...
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Houses floated away in this Alaska Native village. Now residents want to move

KWIGILLINGOK, Alaska — When the remnants of Typhoon Halong arrived in the low-lying village of Kwigillingok, on Alaska's southwestern coast, late in the night on Oct. 11, Noah Andrew Sr. says the ...
Newsday

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

JUNEAU, Alaska — Storms that battered Alaska's western coast this fall have brought renewed attention to low-lying Indigenous villages left increasingly vulnerable by climate change — and revived ...