A student reacts to tear gas fired by Israeli Police in the yard of the UNRWA Boys’ School, in the Shuafat Refugee Camp in east Jerusalem, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
“To move somewhere else, we’d lose a part of our identity. It’s hard to see myself living elsewhere,” said Weyiouanna, whose family first came to Shishmaref with a dogsled team in 1958.Seal hunting boats are visible in the distance as the Rev. Aaron Silco, a co-pastor of the Shishmaref Lutheran Church with his wife, Anna, walks to the church to lead a Sunday service in Shishmaref, Alaska, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Seal hunting boats are visible in the distance as the Rev. Aaron Silco, a co-pastor of the Shishmaref Lutheran Church with his wife, Anna, walks to the church to lead a Sunday service in Shishmaref, Alaska, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)The Rev. Aaron Silco, center, who is a co-pastor of the Shishmaref Lutheran Church with his wife, Anna, left, feeds their two-month-old son, Aidan, while getting ready for a Sunday service in Shishmaref, Alaska, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)The Rev. Aaron Silco, center, who is a co-pastor of the Shishmaref Lutheran Church with his wife, Anna, left, feeds their two-month-old son, Aidan, while getting ready for a Sunday service in Shishmaref, Alaska, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
The Rev. Aaron Silco, who is a co-pastor of the Shishmaref Lutheran Church with his wife, Anna, is seen through a church window as he tries to get his two-month-old son, Aidan, to sleep during choir practice in Shishmaref, Alaska, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)The Rev. Aaron Silco, who is a co-pastor of the Shishmaref Lutheran Church with his wife, Anna, is seen through a church window as he tries to get his two-month-old son, Aidan, to sleep during choir practice in Shishmaref, Alaska, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
“My home means my way of life, carried down to me by my ancestors – living off the land, the ocean, the air…we live off the animals that are here. And it’s important to teach it to my children, to my grandchildren,” she said, pointing to Isaac, 10 and Kyle Rose, 6, “so they can continue the life that we’ve known in our time and before our time.”
That traditional lifestyle that the Inupiat have maintained for thousands of years is vulnerable to the effects of climate change. In Alaska, the average temperatureThe friendly engagement is just one tactic the women-led forest ranger group has been using to safeguard the forest their village relies on from deforestation and poaching. After years of patrols have accompanied a sharp decrease in deforestation, the rangers are now sharing their strategies with other women-led groups striving to protect their forests across Indonesia.
Rangers talk to a villager they met on their way back from a patrol in Damaran Baru, Aceh province, Indonesia, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)Rangers talk to a villager they met on their way back from a patrol in Damaran Baru, Aceh province, Indonesia, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
A vast tropical archipelago stretching across the equator, Indonesia is home to the world’s third-largest rainforest, with a variety of endangered wildlife and plants, including orangutans, elephants and giant forest flowers. Some live nowhere else.Since 1950, more than 285,715 square miles (740,000 square kilometers) of Indonesian rainforest — an area twice the size of Germany — have been logged, burned or degraded for development of palm oil, paper and rubber plantations, nickel mining and other commodities, according to Global Forest Watch. In recent years