Photo Diary: A Week in Rural Alaska Where Climate Change Is Threatening a Village, Its School and Way of Life

There are no roads that lead to Newtok, Alaska, an indigenous village about 480 miles southwest of Anchorage, near the Bering Sea coast. To get there requires a flight on a propeller plane or a very long boat ride. The water is creeping dangerously close to houses and the Newtok School, the highest point in the village. By some estimates, the water could reach the school by 2017, making it the first in the United States to be shuttered because of climate change.