dispatches from alaska

  • Climate Change Is Erasing Human History

    Climate Change Is Erasing Human History

    UTQIAĠVIK, ALASKA – On a crumbling heap of thousand-year-old garbage overlooking a leaden sea, Anne Jensen shakes her head disapprovingly. A gust of Arctic air whips her hair around her face as she scrutinises the beige house perched 18m above us, atop an Iñupiat archaeological site that’s fast eroding into the ocean.