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Alaska’s Arctic landscape is under assault from a warming climate, and it’s happening a lot faster than anticipated.

Liverpool, N.S., is trying to ward off flood waters from rising sea levels while the community is also starting to sink.

For as long as anyone remembers, Napakiak has been retreating from the Kuskokwim. The village of about 400 people sits on a bend in the river, and every

Rising sea levels will threaten three times more people in the next 30 years than previously thought, according to the latest scientific estimates. Among the hundreds of millions of people worldwide facing the threat are the 400 residents of Newtok, Alaska. Rising river and eroding land is pushing the entire community to relocate, despite emotional and logistical hurdles.

A recent report compiled by the Army Corps of Engineers and researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks documents erosion and other environmental threats facing communities in rural Alaska.

For half a century, Taku had been the one known Alaskan glacier to withstand the effects of climate change – until now.

For decades, efforts have been underway to tame the effects of erosion on the Magdalen Islands, an archipelago in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. But the effects of climate change left these tiny islands vulnerable when it came to facing two powerful and unpredictable storms in less than a year.

For the first time in more than 30 years, the Navy staged a joint training exercise on the far-western Aleutian island. Some are hoping it portends a permanent future in the region.

For more than a century farmers in California's Central Valley have been pumping water out of the ground — so much so that the land is slowly sinking, a process known as subsidence. In fewer than 100 years, it's dropped 8½ metres.

The Coast Guard ordered the Lower Kuskokwim School District to empty the tanks to prevent an environmental disaster as the eroding Kuskokwim riverbank advanced towards the fuel site.

The top of the world saw record-beating average temperatures flashing through all three summer months.

The McKinley fire, Deshka Landing fire and Swan Lake fire continued to impact Southcentral Alaska with highway closures and delays, smoke and questions about when residents evacuated from the McKinley fire would be able to return to their homes.

Homer-area neighborhoods have been told to prepare for potential evacuation. The Sterling and Parks highways have been partially reopened — but expect delays.

A fire management official said more concrete information about the structures damaged by the fire will be available after emergency managers go in to survey the area on Tuesday.

Stop land damage and change food production to halt climate crisis, United Nations scientists warn in second IPCC report

Somewhere between the size of a sewer rat and a beaver, with a tail resembling that of an opossum and protruding, nacho cheese-colored teeth, the nutria is both impressively unattractive and highly destructive.

Average temperature for month amid Arctic heatwave was 58.1F (14.5C), nearly 1F above previous high set in July 2004

More than a month’s worth of rain has soaked parts of the state in just a few days, setting records.

Global warming is shrinking the permanently frozen ground across Siberia, disrupting everyday life in one of the coldest inhabited places on earth.

A city council member estimated the Western Alaska village has lost about 20 feet of riverbank since May.