Typhoon Halong brings extreme flooding in Alaska
UUSC is in contact with our partners and community leaders to help support Alaska Native communities experiencing catastrophic flooding, loss of homes, and evacuations in Western Alaska.
Local reports describe hundreds of residents sheltering in schools without power or sanitation in the hardest-hit villages of Kipnuk and Kwigillingok, underscoring the urgent need for coordinated relief efforts.
This storm-caused devastation is the latest in a heartbreaking pattern of climate change impacts to Indigenous Peoples in the region, which has been recently documented by the Inter-American Human Rights Commission’s Special Rapporteur. Read about the past visit to the region and the resulting report calling for increased government programs and heightened response to climate forced displacement.
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