A video report from a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Senegal offers a window into how climate change is devastating lives and property in West Africa.
Rising sea levels have destroyed coastal homes and buildings in Saint-Louis and warmer ocean temperatures have brought dwindling fish catches.
“This is why so many young people are leaving to get to Europe,” the town’s deputy mayor says in the video.
In this video shared here through the Covering Climate Now collaboration, Nicolas Haque from Al Jazeera English reports from Popenguine in Senegal (a longer version of the video can be seen here).
This video is published as part of the global Covering Climate Now initiative, an unprecedented collaboration involving hundreds of media outlets around the world. It is co-founded by The Nation and the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR), in partnership with The Guardian.
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