Antonio Mayoral and Guadalupe Cobos pose for a portrait at their home. They are among the last residents of El Bosque. More than 60 families have already relocated inland, losing access to the sea and their traditional fishing livelihoods. El Bosque, Tabasco, Mexico
Mexico is especially vulnerable to climate extremes, with 52% of its territory situated in arid or semi-arid zones. Over the last two decades, environmental disasters have internally displaced approximately 2.7 million people, a figure projected to reach up to 8 million by 2050. This project documents the enormous cost of these changes on a human scale: from the rapid erosion of Tabasco’s coastlines, where sea levels are rising three times faster than the global average, to the systemic water scarcities in Monterrey and the State of Mexico, where renewable water availability has plummeted by 81% since 1950.
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