Newtok (Central Yupik: Niugtaq) is a small village on the Ningliq River in the Bethel Census Area, Alaska, United States. The population is zero as of late 2024, down from 321 in 2000, and the village has been abandoned.

2024年4月22日 · The Yup’ik village of Newtok, perched precariously on thawing permafrost at the edge of the rapidly eroding Ninglick River, is the first Alaska community to begin a full-scale …

Erosion and melting permafrost have just about destroyed the Alaska village of Newtok. About 70 feet of land has been disappearing each year, and all that remains are some dilapidated and largely abandoned gray homes scraped bare of paint by salty winds of Bering Sea storms.

5 天之前 · Student reporter Samuel John shares a status update on the new school in Mertarvik, the new townsite for Newtok after sustained coastal erosion.

Newtok is the first community in Alaska that has already begun relocation as a result of climate change, pioneering a process that many other Alaskan villages may soon be forced to undergo....

Newtok Planning Group Newtok Village Relocation History A Brief History of the Settlement of Newtok and Village Relocation Efforts Part One: The Qaluyaarmiut - People of the Dip Net Part Two: Early Efforts to Address Erosion Part Three: Progressive Erosion Brings New Problems Part Four: The Newtok Planning Group

2023年1月18日 · Nearly 200 people live in Newtok today, but the vast majority of them know they’re unlikely to stay here safely for much longer. From a distance, not much seems amiss, …

Losing ground to climate change, this Alaskan community resolves to save itself. Water will erase Newtok, Alaska. Built on a delta at the edge of the Bering Sea, the tiny Yup’ik village has been dealing with melting permafrost, river erosion and decaying infrastructure for decades.

Twenty miles from the Bering Sea Coast, along the Ninglick River, sits the Native Village of Newtok, or Niuqtaq in Yup’ik. For over two thousand years, the ancestors of the Newtok people traveled seasonally in order to be close to the animals and vegetation on which they subsisted.

Newtok, Alaska, is a small Yup’ik village with a population of around 350 residents, located near the Ninglick River. The community faces severe erosion and climate change impacts, which have prompted notable relocation efforts.