Permafrost Melt, Rising Seas, and Coastal Erosion Threaten Arctic Communities

“In 1959, he knew it was coming,” said Delbert Pungowiyi, a Yupik native of Savoonga, Alaska, on St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea in an interview at the Wilson Center’s 8th Syymposium on the Impacts of an Ice-Diminishing Arctic on Naval and Maritime Operations. “He prepared me my whole life for this. It is … Continue reading Permafrost Melt, Rising Seas, and Coastal Erosion Threaten Arctic Communities