Flying drones and chasing data, Indigenous women in Guyana join fight against climate change

A small group of Indigenous women in northern Guyana are flying drones and chasing data to help understand climate change and stop the worst of its impacts. The young Amerindian women are scanning mangrove forests to watch for illegal cutting. They also hope to start collecting soil samples and mangrove litter soon to measure how much carbon is being sequestered in remote coastal ecosystems that have been out of reach for scientists. That work could nudge the government to create policies and programs to protect critical areas. And few places are as vulnerable to climate change as Guyana, where most of the population lives below sea level on a coastline that relies on a nearly 300-mile seawall built centuries ago.