内容摘要：Incense, placed in a cup of rice, burns on an altar outside a restaurant to seek prosperity in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Incense, placed in a cup of rice, burns on an altar outside a restaurant to seek prosperity in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Maja Andersen, third from left in the front row, holds a South Korean flag while taking a group photo at the Overseas Korean Adoptees Gathering in Seoul, South Korea, May 21, 2024. These adoptees are among the 200,000 sent away from Korea to Western nations as children. Many have grown up and are searching for their origin story. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)Maja Andersen, third from left in the front row, holds a South Korean flag while taking a group photo at the Overseas Korean Adoptees Gathering in Seoul, South Korea, May 21, 2024. These adoptees are among the 200,000 sent away from Korea to Western nations as children. Many have grown up and are searching for their origin story. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

The flag of South Korea is displayed at the Overseas Korean Adoptees Gathering in Seoul, South Korea, May 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)The flag of South Korea is displayed at the Overseas Korean Adoptees Gathering in Seoul, South Korea, May 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)Korean adoptees have organized, and now they help those coming along behind them. Non-profit groups conduct DNA testing. Sympathetic residents, police officers and city workers of the towns where they once lived often try to assist them. Sometimes adoption agencies are able to track down birth families.

Nearly four decades after her adoption to the U.S., Nicole Motta in May sat across the table from a 70-year-old man her adoption agency had identified as her birth father. She typed “thanks for meeting me today” into a translation program on her phone to show him. A social worker placed hair samples into plastic bags for DNA testing.But the moment they hugged, Motta, adopted to the United States in 1985, didn’t need the results — she knew she’d come from this man.

Adoptee Nicole Motta, left, and her birth father, Jang Dae-chang, wipe tears after an emotional reunion at the Eastern Social Welfare Society in Seoul, May 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Adoptee Nicole Motta, left, and her birth father, Jang Dae-chang, wipe tears after an emotional reunion at the Eastern Social Welfare Society in Seoul, May 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)leader, promotes environmental restoration coupled with ayahuasca treatment and a fish farm. But the veteran reporter doesn’t see how it can be scalable and reproducible given man-made threats and climate change.

Later in the chapter, he quotes Marek Hanusch, a German economist for the World Bank, as saying: “At the end of the day, deforestation is a macroeconomic choice, and so long as Brazil’s growth model is based on agriculture, you’re going to see expansion into the Amazon.”In the foreword, the group of five organizers state that “Like Dom, none of us was under any illusion that our writing would save the Amazon, but we could certainly follow his lead in asking the people who might know.”

But in this book stained by blood and dim hope, there is another message, according to Watts: “The most important thing is that this is all about solidarity with our friend and with journalism in general.”The Associated Press’ climate and environmental coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. AP is solely responsible for all content. Find AP’s