Shishmaref Mayor Howard Weyiouanna Sr. told The Associated Press last month that some sort of solution must be found. “Doing nothing is not an option,” he said.

Utilities are expensive, if they exist at all. Shishmaref lacks basic plumbing for sewage and potable water. At one of the village’s two stores, a gallon of drinking water costs $11.

The Alaskan village of Shishmaref voted this week to surrender to global warming and move its ancestral home. The Tuesday vote was close. Eighty-nine people voted to move Shishmaref to the Alaska ...

In Shishmaref, residents went to the polls to decide whether they would relocate because of warming. The answer: Yes, by a margin of 89 to 78, according to local officials.

Today, Shishmaref is one of dozens of Alaska Native villages that face significant environmental threats from erosion, flooding or thawing permafrost, according to a report published in May by the ...

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The people of Shishmaref had been fighting erosion of their sandy island long enough to know it was time to move back from the Chukchi Sea as soon as possible. "Even in the summer we are losing ...

Shishmaref is one of at least 31 Alaska Native villages where erosion due to climate change poses an imminent threat, according to a 2009 report from the Government Accountability Office.

As determined by Tuesday’s submitted ballots, the community of Shishmaref will relocate to one of two potential sites. According to the Associated Press, unofficial results were 89 in favor of ...

The village of Shishmaref is as much a global symbol as an Alaska town. Located on Sarichef Island off the northern coast of the Seward Peninsula, the tiny community is remote even by Alaska ...

Shishmaref's people were nomadic, following seals and caribou, until the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs built a school on the island in the early 1900s and forced Inupiat children to attend.

Shishmaref has identified two potential sites for a new version of the community. Both are inland, meaning hunters and fishers would not be able to access the sea as easily.