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Shells fell on the Alaska Native village as winter approached, and then sailors landed and burned what was left of homes, food caches and canoes. Conditions grew so dire in the following months that ...

Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. (Kristine Sowl photo/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) (CN) — Three Alaska Native villages and a national conservation organization filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the ...

The Yup’ik village of Newtok, perched precariously on thawing permafrost at the edge of the rapidly eroding Ninglick River, is the first Alaska community to begin a full-scale relocation made ...

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