Panama's first climate change displaced bid their island farewell - The Mountaineer
Panama's first climate change displaced bid their island farewell | National | themountaineer.com
Some 1,200 members of a Panamanian Indigenous community, their island home threatened by rising sea levels, received new government-sponsored homes on the mainland Wednesday.
The soon-to-be former inhabitants of the island of Carti Sugtupu are the first people in Panama to be displaced by climate change.
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