How rising seas are threatening the crucial art of weaving in Samoa | Samoa

In the Samoan village of Neiafu, Amio Pei Ioane sits with a group of women in a weaving house. Around her, rolls of stripped pandanus leaves, the spiky-leaved plant used to make woven mats, rest in bundles.

She began weaving when she was 15, assisting the village group before eventually joining…