MERTARVIK, Alaska (AP) — Growing up along the banks of the Ninglick River in western Alaska, Ashley Tom would look out of her window after strong storms from the Bering Sea hit her village and notice ...

Mertarvik, Alaska, sits high on a treeless bluff, roughly 30 miles up the Ninglick River from the Bering Sea. On a late April day, wet, stinging snow and ominous gray clouds gave way to spots of blue ...

Newtok has been moving to safer ground while facing mounting crisis. A story of both struggle and success, it's become a model for communities in the path of disaster. Newly built houses stand on a ...

NEWTOK, Alaska - A jumble of shipping containers hold all that remains of the demolished public school in Newtok, Alaska, where on a recent visit, a few stray dogs and a lone ermine prowled among the ...

Kids in Newtok like to spend their after school hours wading in the local pond, on the hunt for small fish and beetles in the mud. (Emily Schwing for KYUK) Nick Tom points across the waterlogged ...

The village of Newtok has been threatened by severe coastal erosion. Many residents have moved to a new townsite, Mertarvik. (File/KYUK) There is no electricity in Newtok and the water plant is no ...

Newly built houses stand on a bluff above the Ninglick River in Mertarvik, Alaska—Newtok’s new village site—after a busy 2019 construction season. (Madeline Ostrander) By signing up, you confirm that ...