“If you’re going to develop energy in the U.S., you’ve got to do it with the support of tribal communities."

The United Nations' maritime agency says shipping companies ought to work with Indigenous communities to reduce noise pollution.

After years of nuclear detonations in the Marshall Islands, fallout and forced relocations of communities began a ripple effect: Many Indigenous Marshallese people who had relied on subsistence farming and fishing for 4,000 years suddenly couldn’t trust the safety of their food, becoming reliant on imported and processed foods. And those were the lucky ones.

It was Tuesday, Aug. 8, and in the town of Lahaina in West Maui, people were screaming and running as the sky rained embers. 

“Our way of life has been totally destroyed.”