Indigenous peoples: adapting to and combatting climate change

Berta Sanyi and Paula Hamadi, left, stand chest deep in water as they collect clams in a mangrove forest where only women are permitted to enter in Jayapura, Papua province, Indonesia on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

Papuan women’s mangrove forest in Indonesia is increasingly threatened by development and pollution

 
An Ashaninka Indigenous man applies face paint during the annual celebration recognizing the Ashaninka territory in the Apiwtxa village, Acre state, Brazil, Monday, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

The Amazon’s Ashaninka tribe restored their territory. Now they aim to change the region

 
Luciane Mengual, 22, an Indigenous woman from the Wayuu community, poses with her baby at home in the Villa del Sur neighborhood, on the outskirts of Riohacha, Colombia, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Droughts, floods and economic uncertainty: Portraits of the Wayuu people in northern Colombia

 
Buildings cover Gardi Sugdub Island, part of San Blas archipelago off Panama's Caribbean coast, Saturday, May 25, 2024. Due to rising sea levels, about 300 Guna Indigenous families will relocate to new homes, built by the government, on the mainland. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Panama prepares to evacuate first island in face of rising sea levels

 
A family stands near the Hudson Bay, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in Churchill, Manitoba. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

As warming threatens polar bear tourism, a Canadian town adapts and thrives

 
Charles Alexie stands along the coastal erosion that has eaten away at the riverbanks on Friday, Aug. 16, 2024, in Newtok, Alaska. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Climate change destroyed an Alaska village. Its residents are starting over in a new town

 
Ganebik Johnson, 13, second from right, teaches spearfishing on Pokegama Lake during a youth spearfishing event Saturday, April 20, 2024, in Lac Du Flambeau, Wis. (AP Photo/John Locher)

More Indigenous youth are learning to spearfish, a connection to ancestors and the land

 
Members of the Indigenous Wayuu community, Zoyla Velasquez, left, and her family, visit the graves of their ancestors near a wind farm on the outskirts of Cabo de la Vela, Colombia, Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Renewable energy ambitions in northern Colombia collide with Indigenous worries

 
CORRECTS LAST NAME TO ATENE FROM BLACK - Robert Atene, left, with the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority, supervises as a volunteer crew lifts a power line pole, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024, on the Navajo Nation in Halchita, Utah. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

On Navajo Nation, a push to electrify more homes on the vast reservation

 
People walk through a part of the Amazon River that shows signs of drought in Santa Sofia, on the outskirts of Leticia, Colombia, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

In Colombia, Amazon River’s extreme drought falls hard on Indigenous communities

 
Miccosukee Tribal elder Michael Frank speaks to members of a task force that brings together federal, state, tribal and local agencies working to restore and protect the Florida Everglades, on a field visit to the Miccosukee Indian Reservation ahead of a task force meeting hosted by the Miccosukee Tribe, Wednesday, April 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

In Florida, the Miccosukee fight to protect the Everglades in the face of climate change

 
John Baker holds a spear while getting ready for a night of fishing at the Chippewa Flowage on the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation, Sunday, April 14, 2024, near Hayward, Wis. Spearfishing is a traditional Ojibwe method of harvesting fish such as walleye in the spring when the fish venture to shallow waters in the evening to spawn. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Behind Upper Midwest tribal spearfishing is a long and violent history of denied treaty rights

 
Lea Zeise, one of Ohe·laku's co-coordinators of the non-profit that works with the families planting crops, picks a cob of white corn in its early form known as green corn, during a harvest on the Oneida Nation Reservation on Friday, Aug. 30, 2024, in Oneida, Wis. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer)

Spring rains destroyed a harvest important to the Oneida people. Farmers are working to adapt

 
A child fills a bucket of water transported by donkeys in the La Voz que Clama neighborhood on the outskirts of Maicao, Colombia, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Indigenous migrants in northern Colombia battle worsening droughts and floods

 
Pelicans fly near the shore as waves from the Pacific Ocean roll in Tuesday, May 14, 2024, on the Quinault reservation in Taholah, Wash. Facing increased flooding from a rising Pacific, the tribe has been working for over a decade to relocate Taholah, their largest village, to a new site on higher ground. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

For at least a decade Quinault Nation has tried to escape the rising Pacific. Time is running out

 
A boy looks out from the window of his house on Kabaena Island, Indonesia, Friday, Nov. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Yusuf Wahil)

Global demand spurring Indonesia’s mining boom comes at a cost for many communities

Indonesia’s mining industry is rapidly expanding on demand for the minerals needed to help power the global energy transition, like nickel, cobalt and bauxite.
 
 · YUSUF WAHIL, VICTORIA MILKO
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