Nearly all of Kipnuk’s 700 residents were evacuated, but when they return the effects of climate crisis will still loom
Silver-lined clouds hung over the Yup’ik village of Kwigillingok the Thursday before a weekend storm was forecasted to pass through.
Dan Winkelman was at the community health clinic for a ground-breaking ceremony, a commemoration of the facility’s much needed expansion. The renovation – part of a $100m effort by the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation (YKHC) – was an example of the non-profit matching its money to its mission: to represent “the healthiest people” in south-western Alaska.
