What an Old City in West Africa Teaches About Rising Waters pulitzercenter.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pulitzercenter.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Saint-Louis, Senegal, is one of the most vulnerable cities in Africa because of rising seas, and its effort to build a seawall offers lessons to other coastal areas that are considering seawalls, including Charleston.
Meet climate researchers in Senegal who know through science and personal experience how global warming there affects the entire world, including hurricanes that strike South Carolina.
SAINT-LOUIS (SENEGAL) - In the northern Senegalese city of Saint-Louis, excavators are ripping up the beach to lay giant blocks of basalt, in an eleventh-hour effort to keep the sea at bay.