内容摘要：A woman combs the hair of another at a shelter for families displaced by gang violence, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

A woman combs the hair of another at a shelter for families displaced by gang violence, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

for working with philanthropies, a list of supporters and funded coverage areas atLETICIA, Colombia (AP) — Marciano Flores stood knee-deep in the Amazon River with the rest of his crew, ready to haul in a giant net as a man in a canoe circled in an attempt to drive fish their way. At 69, after a life of working the river, Flores can tell at a glance just the right spots to seek a catch he can sell at the market.

But standing here a year ago would have been impossible, with the river far above his head. Flores has never seen the Amazon so low, and the men’s net came up empty before they relocated downriver and caught a few small fish. A declining catch is forcing him and his fellow fishermen to search farther and farther down the river each day, and costing him more in fuel too.“The drought has hit me hard,” said Flores, of the Cocama Indigenous community. “When the water’s low, the fish die, so there’s nothing to get.”Men fish in the low levels of the Amazon River, on the outskirts of Leticia, Colombia, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Men fish in the low levels of the Amazon River, on the outskirts of Leticia, Colombia, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)Marciano Flores, from the Cocama Indigenous community, fishes in the low levels of the Amazon River, on the outskirts of Leticia, Colombia, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Marciano Flores, from the Cocama Indigenous community, fishes in the low levels of the Amazon River, on the outskirts of Leticia, Colombia, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

naturally fluctuates during the dry and rainy seasons. But since last year a dramatic drop has been evident,John Baker stands near a cross that he and his father erected to mark the location where a church used to stand near the Chippewa Flowage on the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation, Sunday, April 14, 2024, near Hayward, Wis. (AP Photo/John Locher)

John Baker stands near a cross that he and his father erected to mark the location where a church used to stand near the Chippewa Flowage on the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation, Sunday, April 14, 2024, near Hayward, Wis. (AP Photo/John Locher)“There were bodies floating out of the Flowage for years afterward,” said Patty Loew, a retired journalism professor who has written several books on the history of tribes and is a citizen of the Mashkiiziibii, also known as the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians.

Baker says that his grandmother has an old map with the names and home locations of many people who once lived there, and that she always told him to protect this place. “That’s what we are. We’re protectors of the land,” he said.John Baker holds a spear while getting ready to fish at the Chippewa Flowage on the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation, Sunday, April 14, 2024, near Hayward, Wis. (AP Photo/John Locher)