I saw houses being washed away in Alaska glacial flooding
11 Aug 2023
It was a hot, sunny day in Alaska’s capital city, uncharacteristic of the largest temperate rainforest in the world. My nineteen-year-old niece and I were chatting about global warming, as Alaskans do whenever we get too hot. “Global warming?” my niece laughed. “More like global burning.” Hours later, ice melt that had