The ancestral pottery practice of an Indigenous community in Brazil has come under threat due to climate change. “Since 2020, we have been noticing that climate change is affecting [cauxi production],” Yakuwipu Waurá, an Indigenous leader, artist and language instructor living in the village of Piyulewene, told Agência Brasil. Beyond the more extreme evidence of global warming in Brazil—including flash floods, landslides and desertification—Yakuwipu argued that climate change poses an existential threat to the Waurá way of life. We never imagined this would affect the production of [Waurá ceramics]. But we never thought the time would come when we would be affected by climate change.