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Ryan White, front, and Darold Madigan harvest wild rice on Leech Lake in Minnesota, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. White, who has been ricing for three decades, says the beds are "continually shrinking," which endangers the wild rice's spiritual and economic gifts. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

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Minnesota Ojibwe harvest sacred, climate-imperiled wild rice
By GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO - Associated Press
Tue,09/20/22-10:31AM , 192 Reads
ON LEECH LAKE, Minnesota (AP) — Seated low in her canoe sliding through a rice bed on this vast lake, Kendra Haugen used one wooden stick to bend the stalks and another to knock the rice off, so gently the stalks sprung right back up.
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Zuriah stands outside her flooded home in Mondoliko, Central Java, Indonesia, Monday, Aug. 1, 2022. Unable to afford to move to a new home, Zuriah continues to live in the house even as nearly all of her neighbors move away. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

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AP PHOTOS: Living amid flood in Indonesia, unable to leave
By DITA ALANGKARA AND VICTORIA MILKO - Associated Press
Wed,08/31/22-10:13PM , 62 Reads
DEMAK REGENCY, Indonesia (AP) — The rice fields are washed away. Coconut trees and chili plants, flooded with salt water, are all dead. The farmers’ fish ponds fail, the water getting so high that the fish swim over the nets. And trash carried by the tides float in and out of homes with doors that no longer can be shut.
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People sit in a shallow pool of water in the riverbed of the Jialing River, a tributary of the Yangtze, in southwestern China's Chongqing Municipality, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022. The very landscape of Chongqing, a megacity that also takes in surrounding farmland and steep and picturesque mountains, has been transformed by an unusually long and intense heat wave and an accompanying drought. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

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AP PHOTOS: Drought changes landscape in southwest China
By MARK SCHIEFELBEIN - Associated Press
Tue,08/23/22-11:43PM , 109 Reads
CHONGQING, China (AP) — River bottoms partially exposed by drought create a rare sight that becomes an urban beach at dusk to escape the withering heat.
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In this aerial photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, water flows through chanels in the lake bed of Poyang Lake, China's largest freshwater lake, in eastern China's Jiangxi Province, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. With China's biggest freshwater lake reduced to just 25% of its usual size by drought, work crews are digging trenches to keep water flowing to irrigate crops. (Wan Xiang/Xinhua via AP)

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Its largest lake is so dry, China digs deep to water crops
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tue,08/23/22-2:52AM , 116 Reads
BEIJING (AP) — With China's biggest freshwater lake reduced to just 25% of its usual size by a severe drought, work crews are digging trenches to keep water flowing to one of the country's key rice-growing regions.
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