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July 29, 2014

Cuba restores mangrove thickets as defense against rising sea level

  • Mangroves have been harvested heavily for dye, pharmaceuticals, lumber and charcoal for cooking, but now they are being protected as rising seas swallow up houses and roads.
  • By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ
    Associated Press

    SURGIDERO DE BATABANO, Cuba. — Many people in this hamlet on the southern coast of Cuba remember when the shore lay about 100 yards farther out. That was four decades ago.

    Since then, rising waters have gradually swallowed up rustic homes, a narrow highway that once paralleled the coast, even an old military tank that people now use to measure the sea's yearly advance.


     
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