Battle for Sovereignty by Michael Varcas

A Chinese Coast Guard vessel guards the entrance of Scarborough Shoal, off Zambales province, Philippines, as seen during the aerial surveillance by the Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR).

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Fighting, Not Sinking by Eddie Jim

Lotomau Fiafia (72), a community elder, stands with his grandson John at the point where he remembers the shoreline used to be when he was a boy. Salia Bay, Kioa Island, Fiji.

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The Return of the Ancient Voices by Pablo Ernesto Piovano

23 July, 2019
Millaray Huichalaf, a machi (ancestral authority, spiritual guide, and medicine woman) for some 150 Mapuche Williche communities, in Los Ríos, Chile, leads resistance against Statkraft, a Norwegian state-owned company that is building a hydroelectric dam on the Pilmaiquén River.

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Draught in the Amazon by Lalo Almeida

A fisherman walks across the dry bed of a branch of the Amazon River, near the Porto Praia Indigenous community. Tefé, Amazonas, Brazil.

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Saving the Monarchs by Jaime Rojo

A latecomer attempts to squeeze in between other monarch butterflies for warmth, at El Rosario Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary, a migratory overwintering spot within the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in Michoacán, Mexico. Most of the eastern population of monarch butterflies overwinter in the reserve.

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Afghanistan on the Edge by Ebrahim Noroozi

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