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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Jenni Monet

‘We know this land’: after Typhoon Halong villages in Alaska confront costs of climate change

An aerial view of a destroyed town
The village of Kipnuk in western Alaska is damaged after sustaining heavy damage during Typhoon Halong. Photograph: Marc Lester/AP

Silver-lined clouds hung over the Yup’ik village of Kwigillingok the Thursday before a weekend storm was forecast 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.

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