The unlikely hero of El Bosque, Mexico

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El Bosque is a former fishing village on Mexico’s Gulf Coast that has been abandoned because of rising sea levels. This is not uncommon in some places around the world, but it was the first time to happen in Mexico. Alvaro Céspedes, from the WWNO podcast “Sea Change,” has the story.

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