How an Indigenous community in #Panama is escaping rising seas

Source: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/indigenous-guna-panama-escape-rising-seas

This year, about 300 families from Gardi Sugdub are expected to begin moving to a new #community on the #mainland. The #resettlement plan was initiated by the residents there more than a decade ago when they could no longer deny that the island couldn’t accommodate the growing #population. Rising seas and intense storms are only making the predicament more dire.

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How an Indigenous community in Panama is escaping rising seas

The Indigenous Guna peoples' relocation from Panama could offer lessons for other communities threatened by climate change.

^{Melba Newsome (Science News Magazine)}

Interactive map shows #Florida parcels that will be flooded (blue shading) using sea level as of 2016 plus a two foot rise in sea level. Click any parcel for attribute data. H/T @ai6yr for the map idea.

Map covers all of Florida. It is centered on Miami Beach when it opens.

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