Show threadGlacierwatchAug 31, 2025

🚨 Permafrost holds ~2× the carbon in Earth’s atmosphere. Thaw lets microbes wake up, releasing CO₂ and methane—especially from abrupt thaw beneath lakes—adding a self-reinforcing climate feedback. The IPCC finds carbon loss from thaw is effectively irreversible on centuries-long timescales.

#permafrost #Yupik #Inuvialuit #Newtok #Tuktoyaktuk #Arctic #climatejustice

AftonbladetAug 1, 2025
Erosionen tog deras hem – tvingades flytta hela byn#newtok #mertarvik #permafrost #erosion #översvämningar #klimatförändringar #klimat&miljö
Erosionen tog deras hem – tvingades flytta hela byn
Erosionen tog deras hem – tvingades flytta hela byn

Orsaken: Klimatförändringarna

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Anja Reul 📯Oct 24, 2024

In 🇩🇪 wurden Dörfer vernichtet, Menschen umgesiedelt & Gemeinschaften zerstört, um #fossileBrennstoffe zu fördern.
In #Alaska verschwinden Dörfer, wegen des #Klimawandel|s

#Newtok nahezu unbewohnbar
#Erderwärmung zwingt ganzes Dorf in Alaska zur #Umsiedlung
https://www.n-tv.de/mediathek/videos/panorama/Erderwaermung-zwingt-ganzes-Dorf-in-Alaska-zur-Umsiedlung-article25301822.html

Newtok nahezu unbewohnbar: Erderwärmung zwingt ganzes Dorf in Alaska zur Umsiedlung

Das Dorf Newtok in Alaska spürt die Erderwärmung besonders stark: Meereis, welches vorher als natürliche Barriere gegen das Wetter diente, schmilzt weg. Stürme - die durch den Klimawandel zusätzlich stärker werden - verwüsten deshalb das Gebiet.

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Robert SanscartierSep 26, 2024

Climate change destroyed an Alaska village. Its residents are starting over in a new town

Today, erosion and melting permafrost have just about destroyed Newtok, eating about 70 feet (21.34 meters) of land every year. All that’s left are some dilapidated and largely abandoned gray homes scraped bare of paint by salt darting in on the winds of storms

#Newtok #Alaska #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #environment #climate

Alaska Native NewsMar 21, 2024

FEMA Awards $6.7 Million for Native Village of Newtok Relocation Efforts
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Storm-driven erosion on the Ninglik River that was creeping towards Newtok has caused the southwest Alaska community to relocate nine miles downriver to Mertarvik. Credit: ANTHC

BOTHELL, Wash. – FEMA has awarded $6,768,114.23 for...
https://alaska-native-news.com/fema-awards-6-7-million-for-native-village-of-newtok-relocation-efforts/73118/
#newtok #relocation #alaska #erosion #ninglickriver #mertarvik

FEMA Awards $6.7 Million for Native Village of Newtok Relocation Efforts - Alaska Native News

BOTHELL, Wash. – FEMA has awarded $6,768,114.23 for the Native Village of Newtok in Alaska as part of their efforts to relocate their entire village to a new site. This grant will allow the village to acquire 36 homes and provide families with the funds to move to a safer location.     Newtok, located on the […]

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bioGraphicJan 23, 2023

Melting permafrost, the rising sea, and storm surges have rendered Newtok—along with dozens of other Alaska Native communities in northern and western Alaska—unlivable. Most residents have been forced to relocate.

#Alaska #Newtok #ClimateChange #Relocation #Permafrost #Sinking #AlaskaNative #ClimateResponse #FEMA #Law #Legal #Funding #Community

https://hakaimagazine.com/news/could-the-alaska-government-be-on-the-hook-for-climate-refugees/

Could the Alaska Government Be on the Hook for Climate Refugees? | Hakai Magazine

A proposed legal strategy could offer a way for those who’ve lost their land to climate change to be compensated.

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Show threadFanua 🌐Jan 22, 2023

@drvolts Already happened in #Newtok #Alaska. #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

"How far can $25 million go to relocate a community that’s disappearing into Alaska’s melting permafrost?" — High Country News

(I expect the #Louisiana #Bayou southern swamp areas will be another as most are below sea level.)

https://www.hcn.org/articles/north-climate-change-how-far-can-25-million-go-to-relocate-a-community-thats-disappearing-into-alaskas-melting-permafrost

How far can $25 million go to relocate a community that’s disappearing into Alaska’s melting permafrost?

A recent Interior Department grant aims to help residents in Newtok move to higher ground, but it’s just a sliver of what’s needed.

ArcticTodayDec 7, 2022
Grants awarded to tribal governments in Alaska and the Lower 48 are only a start in what is expected to be a long process of funding relocation of Indigenous communities that are threatened by climate change.
https://www.arctictoday.com/alaska-villages-chosen-for-federal-relocation-grants-were-singled-out-for-climate-change-threats-and-progress/
#Newtok #Napakiak #Alaska #Arctic #ClimateChange
Alaska villages chosen for federal relocation grants were singled out for climate-change threats — and progress - ArcticToday

Grants awarded to tribal governments in Alaska and the Lower 48 are only a start in what is expected to be a long process of funding relocation of Indigenous communities that are threatened by climate change, a top Interior Department official said Thursday. Interior on Wednesday announced that tribal governments in the Yup’ik villages of

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