Every year, Alaska Native resident Ken Shade watches as a little more of his land falls over the edge, into the sea. Dillingham is just one example of a small Alaskan town with a big erosion problem.

With coastal sea ice shrinking in the Arctic, the U.S. Air Force is creating new models to better predict erosion threats to Alaska radar sites that have played a critical role in national defense ...

This 2006 photo shows the post office in Newtok, Alaska. The village is running out of time as coastal erosion creeps ever closer to the Yup'ik community. (The Associated Press) ANCHORAGE, Alaska ...

Erosion of Alaska's north coast speeding up / In the last 50 years, ponds have turned into saltwater bays. By David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor July 5, 2007.

Skyrocketing coastal erosion occurred in Alaska between 2002 and 2007 along a 40-mile stretch of the Beaufort Sea, a new study finds. The surge of erosion in recent years, averaging more than ...

Kodiak-area communities' workshop troubleshoots coastal erosion Alaska Public Media | By Davis Hovey, KMXT - Kodiak Published December 9, 2024 at 12:42 PM AKST ...

Each year, coastal communities in Western Alaska watch feet - even yards - of shoreline disappear into the waves. Now, a new online mapping tool will let them look at past erosion and see where ...

Coastal erosion has more than doubled in Alaska -- up to 45 feet per year -- in a five-year period between 2002 and 2007 along a 40-mile stretch of the Beaufort Sea.

On the western coast of Canada and Alaska, coastal communities lose more than 4 feet ... One strategy to keep erosion at bay involves drawing heat out of the ground in order to keep permafrost frozen.

Erosion is eating away at Alaska's northern coast at some of the highest rates in the nation, threatening habitat and infrastructure, according to a new report published Wednesday.

By 2100, the combined effects of coastal erosion, sea level rise, and permafrost thaw subsidence will likely push the North Slope shoreline inland to a location it hasn't reached since the last ...

This story was originally published by Grist. A sandy bluff towers above the beach in Dillingham, Alaska. Every year, Alaska Native resident Ken Shade watches as a little more of his land falls over ...