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Joy Acosta, left, and Theresa Dardar talk in the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe gathering center, which now doubles as an aid facility stocked with food and supplies for the community in Pointe-aux-Chenes, La., on Sept. 29, a month after Hurricane Ida made landfall in late August. Over the past decade, Dardar and her husband have partnered with faith and community leaders across the Mississippi River Delta to combat climate change and land loss. (AP/Jessie Wardarski)