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During the storm, wind speeds on the island reached 100 miles per hour and caused massive flooding of low-lying areas, floating homes off their foundations in Nightmute and destroying the subsistence site known as Umkumiut.
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Climate change forces combine to make the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta especially vulnerable, threatening a region that has sustained Indigenous people for millennia.
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After making do with makeshift classrooms as the Kuskowkim River encroached on their old school, Napakiak students are back to school under one new roof.
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A newly updated learning space aims to grow the potential of a Bethel-based nursing education program.
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For the first time in years, students in Napakiak are at school under the same roof, in a school building that’s safe from the encroaching erosion of the Kuskokwim River.
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A young Alaska Native engineer with roots in Kongiganak has been appointed as a Youth Climate advisor to the United Nations.
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It’s a bit of a mystery where some birds go when they leave Alaska for the winter. A recent tracking project on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta sought to shed light on birds’ worldwide winter homes.
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The sudden withholding of federal funds poses an existential threat to projects that have been in the works for years in communities across the U.S.
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The short and straightforward report published in the journal Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research (AAAR) seeks to sum up a long-term, complex issue.
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Students from Mertarvik have been documenting the impact climate change has had on their lives through writing and photographs. A group of Mertarvik students traveled to New York City earlier this year to see their work on display.
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The coastal New England town of Provincetown, Mass. and the Bering Sea coastal village of Mertarvik are just about as far away as two places can be in the United States. But students in both communities have common ground in growing up in a rapidly changing climate.
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The controversial program, aimed at boosting the population of a struggling caribou herd in Western Alaska, had been halted by court rulings because of legal flaws.