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Marquetta L. Goodwine, aka Queen Quet, heads the Gullah-Geechee Nation. Here, she holds heirloom rice grains during an event in Charleston, South Carolina, on April 7, 2017. The grain was thought long extinct until it was found growing in a field in Trinidad, tended by a farmer descended from slaves who once lived in Georgia.

Mary Rivers Legree, whose family has lived on the same land for hundreds of years, at the Coffin Point Praise House on St. Helena Island. The South Carolina Sea Islands, and the Gullah Geechee culture, which has endured since the days of slavery, are increasingly buffeted by economic and social change—not to mention increasingly worse storms caused by climate change.

The Sea Islands, Jekyll Island, Georgia, included, are threatened by climate change-caused sea level rise. The people whose ancestors settled the islands must reckon with losing not only their property, but their culture.

Police officers at Atalaia do Norte on the Javari River investigate the disappearance of Phillips and Pereira after appeals from around the world prompted Brazilian authorities to intensify search efforts.

In southern Oregon, a few of the trees scorched by the Bootleg fire in 2021 stand alongside an area that was spared the worst. One of the largest wildfires in state history, it ravaged more than 400,000 acres.