The Alaska National Guard was in Newtok a few days after the storm. While in the village, they removed nearly 900 pounds of debris, but there’s still garbage scattered everywhere.

Charles Alexie stands along the coastal erosion that has eaten away at the riverbanks on Friday, Aug. 16, 2024, in Newtok, Alaska. Credit: AP/Rick Bowmer ...

BETHEL, ALASKA — Stanley Tom recently invited the most politically connected man in the state to visit his small village on Alaska’s western coast. Tom wanted U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens to witness ...

NEWTOK, Alaska — The effects of climate change are apparent immediately after stepping off the plane in this small Yup’ik village that sits just inland from Alaska’s west coast.

One afternoon in the waning days of winter, the most powerful man in Newtok, Alaska, hopped on a plane and flew 1,000 miles to plead for the survival of his village.

Newtok, an Alaska Native community with some 300 residents at the time, stood on the remote edge of the United States as a harbinger of the ways in which climate disasters would disrupt our daily ...

So Newtok’s residents have been working with the state of Alaska and various federal agencies and private funders on a large-scale move to higher, safer ,and healthier ground since at least the ...

Alaska town to vanish by 2017, report says. Kate Seamons, Newser. When it comes to the fate of the 350 residents of Newtok, Alaska, the Guardian pulls no punches: "Exile is inevitable," it writes.

NEWTOK, Alaska -- The last time chronic flooding forced this tiny Alaska village to relocate, sled dogs pulled the old church to its new home three miles away, far from the raging Ninglick River ...

On a chilly afternoon last November, I went to visit George Carl, the vice president of the Newtok Village Council. He’s a slight, wiry man in his mid-60s with a bushy gray mustache and a pair ...

What went wrong in Newtok, Alaska? The small town was supposed to be a model for communities that will need to move in the coming decades because of climate change.

Permafrost melts on the coast in Newtok, Alaska on Friday, Aug. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) An abandoned home is locked up in Newtok, Alaska on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024.