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.
SAINT-LOUIS (Senegal), Oct 4 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. When work is finished, a black sea wall will stretch for kilometres along the coastline of the West.
Dire warnings about the risk of rising sea levels due to climate change are already a reality in Saint-Louis, where beachfront residents are abandoning their homes to the encroaching Atlantic Ocean
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