The forum kicks off at the UAS Egan Library at 7 p.m. Thursday and continues through Saturday afternoon.
Climate Change
Online map plots coastal erosion in 8 Western Alaska locations
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 coastlines might be in future years.
Protesters slam Murkowski’s support for Arctic drilling
During Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s speech at the AFN Convention on Friday, protesters marched dressed as a salmon, a caribou and a walrus. They were calling out Murkowski for her support of Arctic oil drilling.
Akiak man loses 50 feet of land to erosion in just a few hours
Dog musher Mike Williams Sr. stepped outside his home Saturday evening to see his kennel falling into the Kuskokwim River and seven of his 60 sled dogs being pulled along with it.
With a new tribal council, Newtok re-establishes efforts for relocation
The new site already has six houses. Plans include two intersecting airport runways, plots for houses, a wind farm, a water plant, a small boat harbor and a community garden; facilities that Newtok residents do not currently have.
Denali Commission faces internal hurdles ahead of threatened villages effort
The commission tasked by the president to help Alaska communities threatened by climate change also has it’s own issues to deal with.