Rising Sea Levels Eat Away 500 Meters of Mexico Town Coastline Since 2005 India Today
go to original December 13, 2023

In El Bosque, a small fishing community in the Gulf of Mexico, a long, one-sided battle against the sea is nearly at an end.

Once a fishing community of over 700 people, today El Bosque, found on the northern coast of Tabasco state, is a shadow of what it was. El Bosque is a small coastal community on the Gulf of Mexico. Advocates say it is the first in the country to be displaced by climate change.

Intensifying winter storms and rapidly rising sea levels have eaten away more than 500 meters of El Bosque's coastline since 2005.

Most families have had their houses already swallowed by the sea and have been forced to leave their homes and rent a house in the nearby town of Frontera.

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Related: The Last Residents of a Coastal Mexican Town Destroyed by Climate Change (Associated Press)

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