NASA imaged the Kuskokwim ice breakup at Aniak this spring; a year earlier the EPA had clawed back a $20 million erosion grant from Kipnuk, fifty miles downriver and a delta over

NASA imaged the Kuskokwim ice breakup at Aniak this spring; a year earlier the EPA had clawed back a $20 million erosion grant from Kipnuk, fifty miles downriver and a delta over

On May 14, 2026, NASA’s Earth Observatory published a before-and-after pair of Landsat 9 images of the Kuskokwim River at Aniak, Alaska. The first frame, acquired April 21, showed a fully frozen channel and a snow-covered floodplain. The second, from May 7, showed the river half open, debris-laden, and breaking up fast. Between the two dates a 21-mile ice jam formed upstream of the town and then ran. Hours after the May 7 image was captured, ice…