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“That’s way too long,” said Jackie Qatalina Schaeffer, the director of climate initiatives at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium. “If we look back a decade at what’s happened as far as climate change in Alaska, we’re out of time,” she said. “We need to find a better way to help communities secure land for relocation.”
The steps by the Interior Department are aligned with President Joe Biden's goal to conserve 30% of U.S. lands and waters as part of his climate change agenda. In a statement, Interior said it had ...
These communities have adapted to climate change in the past and have knowledge that non-indigenous people can utilize to adapt to climate change in the future. [6] More recently, an increasing number of climate scientists and indigenous activists advocate for the inclusion of TEK into research regarding climate change policy and adaptation ...
The coldest U.S. state in terms of annual mean temperature, Alaska is also America’s fastest-warming one. Since 1970, the average temperature in Alaska has risen a disconcerting 4.22°F ...
Federal presidential vote in Alaska, 1960-2020. Although in its early years of statehood, Alaska was a Democratic state, since the early 1970s it has been characterized as Republican-leaning. [1] Local political communities have often worked on issues related to land use development, fishing, tourism, and individual rights.
Hog Butte Fire, Alaska, June 2022 Sign thanking firefighters, Deshka Landing Fire, 2019. In August 2016, the Environmental Protection Agency reported that "[o]ver the past 60 years, most of the state has warmed three degrees (F) on average and six degrees during winter" [1] As a result of this temperature increase, the EPA noted that "Arctic sea ice is retreating, shores are eroding, glaciers ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part of a series on how tribes and Indigenous communities are coping with and combating climate change. Newtok village leaders began searching for a new townsite more than two decades ago, ultimately swapping land with the federal government for a place 9 miles (14.48 kilometers) away on the stable volcanic ...
The Inuit Circumpolar Council, a group representing indigenous peoples of the Arctic, has made the case that climate change represents a threat to their human rights. [ 37 ] As of the 2000 U.S. Census, the Inupiat population in the United States numbered more than 19,000.