Diane Toomey is an award-winning public radio journalist who has worked at Marketplace, the World Vision Report and Living on Earth, where she was the science editor. She is a regular contributor to Yale Environment 360 and is currently an associate researcher at the PBS science show NOVA. https://www.newsdeeply.com/arctic/contributor/diane-toomey/rss en Environment Infrastructure Northern People & Health Wed, 13 Jul 2016 07:36:29 +0000 Diane Toomey https://www.newsdeeply.com/arctic/articles/2016/07/13/alaskan-villages-stuck-in-limbo https://www.newsdeeply.com/arctic/articles/2016/07/13/alaskan-villages-stuck-in-limbo YALE ENVIRONMENT 360: Alaska Native communities advocate Robin Bronen points to a bureaucratic Catch-22 – villages can’t get government support to relocate in the face of climate-induced threats, but they no longer receive funds to repair their crumbling infrastructure.