Article 4M9KQ ‘It won’t be long’: why a Honduran community will soon be under water

‘It won’t be long’: why a Honduran community will soon be under water

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Nina Lakhani in Cedeño, Choluteca
from World news | The Guardian on (#4M9KQ)

Rising sea levels are destroying coastal towns in Honduras - and shrimp farms which export to the UK and US are making it worse

Eric Pineda runs a modest beachfront restaurant which serves up plates of fresh fish and rice - and faces imminent destruction.

A recent tidal surge razed the nightclub next door, leaving a pastel pink ruin, and in the past two years, several other businesses between Pineda's property and the Pacific Ocean have been destroyed by sudden waves.

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