内容摘要：Arsenal coach Renee Slegers reacts during the women’s Champions League final soccer match between Arsenal and FC Barcelona at the Jose Alvalade Stadium in Lisbon, Saturday, May 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Breton)

Arsenal coach Renee Slegers reacts during the women’s Champions League final soccer match between Arsenal and FC Barcelona at the Jose Alvalade Stadium in Lisbon, Saturday, May 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Breton)

A row of houses sits feet from the rising Pacific Ocean, which often floods through and over the 15-foot seawall during winter king tides and storms Tuesday, May 14, 2024, on the Quinault reservation in Taholah, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)Faced with rising sea levels and increasing flooding, the Quinault Indian Nation has spent at least a decade working to relocate hundreds of residents and civic buildings in Taholah to higher ground. There’s also the threat of an earthquake and tsunami from a major offshore fault line. But that relocation depends on money, and a patchwork of federal and state grants has fallen far below the estimated more than $400 million needed.

“Where are we going to go if the house does get in a state where it’s not livable?” Sonny Curley wondered. “Where are my parents going to go and where are my kids going to go?”The Quinault Indian Nation in Washington state has spent at least a decade working to relocate hundreds of people whose homes are threatened by a rising Pacific Ocean. Their largest village, Taholah, has seen increased flooding But progress has been slow and the total tally could be more than $400 million. (AP Video by Manuel Valdes, Hallie Golden and Lindsey Wasson)EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part of a series of on how tribes and Indigenous communities are coping with and combating climate change.

Across the U.S., tribes suffer some of thebut typically have the fewest resources to respond. Along the coasts, where a

has predicted seas will rise 10 to 12 inches (0.25 to 0.3 meters) by 2050, tribes have taken key steps toward relocation. That includes the Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe, just 91 miles (146 kilometers) south of Quinault, and Newtok Village on the western coast of Alaska.

“When you move people to marginal lands and you marginalize them within society, you layer climate change on top of that ... they’re vulnerable to climate,” said Michael Spencer, who researches and teaches on social work and public health among Indigenous people at the University of Washington.A woman sits on speakers playing music during a Red Devils bus exhibition in La Chorrera, Panama, Sunday, June 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

The driver of a Red Devil tourist bus calls for customers along the Amador Causeway in Panama City, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024. The Red Devils are former U.S. school buses once used in the Panama Canal Zone and later as public transport or adapted for private and cultural use. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)The driver of a Red Devil tourist bus calls for customers along the Amador Causeway in Panama City, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024. The Red Devils are former U.S. school buses once used in the Panama Canal Zone and later as public transport or adapted for private and cultural use. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

A waitress serves patrons inside a Red Devil restaurant in Portobelo, Panama, Saturday, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)A waitress serves patrons inside a Red Devil restaurant in Portobelo, Panama, Saturday, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)