Bringing The World Home To You

© 2025 WUNC North Carolina Public Radio
120 Friday Center Dr
Chapel Hill, NC 27517
919.445.9150 | 800.962.9862

Donate

Play Live Radio

Next Up:

0:00

0:00 0:00

Available On Air Stations

Already a Sustainer? Click here to increase now →

A typhoon is forcing Native Alaskans to evacuate and lose the only land they've known

By Sage Smiley

Published October 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM EDT

Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn
Email

The remnants of a typhoon have forced over a thousand people to evacuate from rural villages in Western Alaska. Many of those leaving are Alaska Native people with generations-long connections to the land.

Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn
Email

Sage Smiley

Stories From This Author

What we know about the devastating storm in Western Alaska

Sage Smiley

The remnant of Typhoon Halong slammed the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, an area in Western Alaska hundreds of miles from the U.S. road system. More than a thousand people are displaced.