No time to recover: Hurricane Melissa and the Caribbean’s compounding disaster trap as the storms keep coming
What’s happening is a glimpse of what’s coming for coastal and island communities as climate change accelerates.
What’s happening is a glimpse of what’s coming for coastal and island communities as climate change accelerates.
Colonial-era land policies and development have left island towns vulnerable to increasing storm risks.
Within the past five years, every island in the region has experienced some sort of water scarcity.
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