Saving Sinking Homes. How climate change is escalating a housing crisis in Alaska’s Native villages.
Stephanie Alexie awoke one morning to find her home surrounded by water too deep to wade through. The land Alexie’s home sits on never used to flood. But, in the last few years, seasonal transitions in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta—an area of western Alaska where the state’s two longest rivers empty into the Bering Sea—have become more disruptive. Now, every spring, when the region undergoes a great thaw and chunks of ice break free from frozen rivers, Alexie finds herself sitting on an island.
