Climate change: US to pay $75m to relocate tribes facing flood threatUS President Joe Biden's administration will help fund the move of three tribal communities facing urgent threats from climate change.
The three tribes will receive $75m (£62m) divided equally between them, Mr Biden announced on Wednesday.
All are located along coastal areas and rivers in the states of Alaska and Washington.
The money will fund the move of key buildings and residential homes to higher ground, away from rising waters.
Mr Biden made the funding announcement at the White House during the Interior Department's Tribal Nations Summit.
In his remarks, he said the tribes receiving funding are "at risk of being washed away".
The money will help "move, in some cases, their entire communities back to safer ground".
Those receiving the funding are Newtok Village and the Native Village of Napakiak in southwest Alaska, and the Quinault Indian Nation, located on Washington state's Olympic Peninsula.
All three communities have either suffered land erosion or are at a growing risk of flooding. ...............
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