US indigenous communities to receive $46m to address global heating

Alaska Natives are especially at risk, as sea ice and permafrost melt and villages are lost to flooding and erosion

Tribal communities will soon have access to $46m to tackle impacts of the climate crisis which disproportionately threaten Indigenous Americans' food supplies, livelihoods and infrastructure.

The funds are part of a historic five-year investment plan under Joe Biden's bipartisan infrastructure law, meant to improve climate resilience and adaptation in tribal territories.