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The population of a small Panamanian island is being relocated to the mainland due to rising ocean levels blamed on climate change. About 300 families are in the process of moving from Gardi Sugdub. There are about 38,000 people in 62 other communities along Panama’s Caribbean and Pacific coasts that may need to be moved due to rising oceans in the coming years. “The islands on average are only a half-meter above sea level, and as that level rises, sooner or later the Gunas are going to have to abandon all of the islands almost surely by the end of the century or earlier,” Steven Paton, direct…

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