For years, coastal Alaska communities, a majority of them Alaska Native villages, have contended with erosion, eating away at the land and pulling more and more of the coast into the sea.

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.

Erosion carries trees over the edge of a cliff and into the sea in Dillingham, Alaska, a coastal city about 350 miles west of Anchorage. Grist / Saima Sidik ...

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

More information: Roger Creel et al, Permafrost thaw subsidence, sea-level rise, and erosion are transforming Alaska's Arctic coastal zone, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024 ...

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.

In January, the construction of the Barrow Alaska Coastal Erosion Project in Utqiaġvik was fully funded with about $364.3 million from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

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 ...

Comparing images from the 1940s to the early 2000s, they found that most of Alaska’s north coast is eroding at an average of about 1.5 meters per year. (A similar report is in the works for the ...

In Hooper Bay, a small city on Alaska’s central west coast that is home to 1,375 people, some families were reportedly evacuating their homes because of the flooding.

Along Alaska’s shore, the main threats are a double-whammy of coastal flooding and winds up to 60 mph with higher gusts that could displace loose objects, damage buildings and bring down powerlines.

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 ...