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Panamanians displaced by sea level rise head to new homes

China Daily | Updated: 2024-07-01 09:38
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An aerial view of Panama's Carti Sugtupu island on the Caribbean coast on June 3. MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP

Alberto Lopez prepared breakfast while water lapped at his ankles. The day began with rain, and his ramshackle home on the Panamanian island of Carti Sugtupu was flooded, not for the first time.

Lopez is one of 1,200 indigenous residents of the island being relocated to the mainland, as sea level rise because of global warming threatens to permanently devour their ancestral home.

The community is the first in Panama to be displaced by climate change.

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