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Others lack an emergency action plan, which lays out steps staff need to take if a player falls sick, with only 32 states requiring them, Stearns said. Complicating safety efforts are resources, with poorest districts often lacking the means to afford protective equipment and athletic trainers.Families wave and take photos as members of the Clinton High School freshman football team arrive for a game at Brandon High in Brandon, Miss., Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Families wave and take photos as members of the Clinton High School freshman football team arrive for a game at Brandon High in Brandon, Miss., Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)The best policies, like those in Georgia, Louisiana, New Jersey and New Hampshire, include heat acclimatization guidance, weather-based modifications, availability of cold water immersion tubs and protocol for treating heat illness including cooling a player before transporting them to the hospital.The case of Laster illustrates some the fatal mistakes his family believes happened and ultimately led to his death. Mississippi’s heat policy at the time fell short in several areas, including requiring no emergency action plan nor wet-bulb globe temperature monitoring.

According to a federal lawsuit filed in January against the Rankin County School District, the first practice was held on the hottest part of the day and didn’t give players any time to adapt. They went right into an intense conditioning. When Laster began showing symptoms of heat illness, including dizziness, disorientation and nausea, coaches pushed him to keep going until he threw up and passed out.Members of the Baker High football team warm up at practice in Baker, La., Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Members of the Baker High football team warm up at practice in Baker, La., Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

The school allegedly had nothing on the field to treat Laster’s condition nor any plan to address the emergency, choosing to put him in the back of a hot pickup truck, “which would have been hotter than the surrounding area.” Their “grossly inadequate heat prevention and response” contributed to his death, said the suit.“We are expanding everything that we did at Apiwxta to an entire region,” said Ashaninka and OPIRJ leader Francisco Piyãko, speaking in front of his home in Apiwtxa. “This is not only about implementing a project. What is at stake is cultural change. This is essential to protect life, the territory and its peoples.”

Ashaninka Indigenous leader Francisco Piyako poses for a portrait during the annual celebration recognizing the Ashaninka territory in the Apiwtxa village, Acre state, Brazil, Monday, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)Ashaninka Indigenous leader Francisco Piyako poses for a portrait during the annual celebration recognizing the Ashaninka territory in the Apiwtxa village, Acre state, Brazil, Monday, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part of a series of on how tribes and Indigenous communities are coping with and combating climate change.Indigenous groups have long argued that they are in the best position to conserve and protect forests, having been successful stewards of lands for thousands of years. Indigenous land management is increasingly a central policy discussion at climate talks as global warming worsens and other methods to protect forests, such as carbon credit schemes, have largely not been successful.