As someone who just decamped from New York City to the Pacific Northwest, you could probably call me a climate refugee.

New York City is in the middle of an air-quality alert because of the massive wildfires out West and in Canada. Of course, what we’re experiencing here is nothing next to what those in the direct areas of the fires are feeling. But it’s not insignificant if you’re elderly, pregnant, have existing health issues, or are a child.

After Kandakam Mogulamma’s husband, a farmer, passed away in 2019, she quickly learned how to grow crops.

Dahabo Mahdi, 32, is ploughing a small cornfield she shares with her in-laws in Jiro, a village in central Somalia. She only moved there recently. She was forced to.