Nearly 200,000 people remained under evacuation orders Monday in the western U.S. state of California while authorities tried to repair erosion of an emergency spillway at the country’s tallest dam to keep it from failing and unleashing uncontrolled flood waters. The immediate emergency that led to the evacuation appeared to have waned; but, officials […]
The thawing and erosion of Arctic permafrost coasts has dramatically increased in the past years and the sea is now consuming more than 20 meters of land per year at some locations. The earth masses removed in this process increasingly blur the shallow water areas and release nutrients and pollutants. Yet, the consequences of these […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Governor Bill Walker’s Rural Affairs Coordinator Paulette Schuerch and Arctic Advisor Craig Fleener joined Deputy Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Military and Veterans’ Affairs (DMVA) Bob Doehl and Director of the DMVA’s Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (DHS&EM) Mike O’Hare on a visit to Shishmaref this week. The team […]
Ushnerluku – ErodeNuna ushnertuq. – The land is eroding. Erosion is the gradual wearing away of the earth by natural forces. Over thousands of years, wind, waves, rain, snow, and ice reshape the landscape, carving through soil and bedrock to create new landforms. Kodiak’s complex coastline, with its steep-sided fjords, inlets, straits, estuaries, lagoons, rocky […]