The End of a Village
A dispatch from the beautiful, tortured village of Umm al-Khair.
A dispatch from the beautiful, tortured village of Umm al-Khair.
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As Kristen Moreland waited for the livestream to buffer, her thoughts drifted to the years she’d devoted to defending Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the northeastern sweep of Alaska where the mountains give way to the coastal plain. On screen, the chatter […]
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The military-led government has not yet responded.