This article discusses funding now available to 3 tribal communities to assist their efforts to relocate inland and escape rising seas.
, the Department is committing $115 million for 11 severely impacted tribes to advance relocation efforts and adaptation planning.
In sum, it is one of the nation’s largest efforts to date to help tribes to leave homelands that are facing an urgent threat from the climate crisis. has awarded, or is in the process of awarding, approximately $17.7 million to assist the 3 communities in their efforts to acquire, demolish, and build new infrastructure out of harm’s way., located on the Ninglick River in Alaska, is experiencing progressive coastal erosion from ocean storms and degrading permafrost. Multiple erosion studies conclude that there is no cost effective way to halt this process, and the current rate of erosion of approximately 70 feet per year.
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