Along the storm-battered coast of Alaska, archaeologists are confronting a truth that climate change has made unavoidable: the past is not safely buried, but increasingly exposed and at risk. A typhoon's remnants tore through a dig site last year, and now a team works against the next storm's arrival to recover what centuries preserved and a single season threatened. Their urgency is a quiet measure of how much is being lost — not only in this place, but in the accelerating erosion of the human record worldwide.
Alaska archaeologists race to salvage artifacts before next storm hits
Homes and infrastructure were damaged by the typhoon, affecting local communities alongside archaeological sites.