A tiny Alaskan village was due to find out whether its community had voted to abandon its ancestral home to the rising seas, and become the first settlement in the United States forced to relocate due to climate change.
Shishmaref's 650 residents went to the polls to decide on a long-discussed proposal to move the entire village, to an as-yet-undecided location.
The remote village, on a 1.5km-wide island 965km from the Alaskan capital, Anchorage, is described as being on the frontline of the climate change battle.
Home for generations of seal hunters and fishermen, the island has lost 900m of coastline in the past 35 years.
Rising temperatures have shrunk the sea ice, which buffered Shishmaref from storm surges.