Picture a deep freezer suddenly failing on a hot summer day. What happens to everything inside? Now imagine that freezer is ...

Wilson Twitchell's house is sinking. Twitchell and his wife, Bertha, are raising seven children in their small home in Kasigluk, a Yup'ik village of about 450 people in Southwest Alaska. These days, ...

BETHEL, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska village of Kongiganak's cemetery has begun to sink as the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta's permafrost thaws. Some villages in the area have stopped burying their dead because ...

In the Arctic tundra of Alaska, climate change is forcing an Alaska Native village to relocate. Rising temperatures are melting the underground permafrost. The melted ice then mixes with the soil, ...