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Rising Sea Makes Panama Islanders Relocate to the Mainland

July 14, 2010
Rising Sea Makes Panama Islanders Relocate to the Mainland

Can weather change the demographics of an island over the course of a single lifetime? If we take Pablo Preciado’s word for it, it can. Pablo Preciado is the leader of the island of Carti Sugdub, one of the Panamanian islands. Global warming and erosion of the coral reefs are threatening to submerge a lot of Caribbean islands that make up Panama.Pablo Preciado says that in his childhood floods were rare and the water...

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