Guadalupe Cobos remembers when floodwaters in 2022 claimed much of El Bosque, the small, Gulf-coast fishing village in Tabasco state where she lives on the Gulf of Mexico. “I felt powerless watching the sea swallow up our community,” says the 48-year-old mother of four. El Bosque is the first Mexican community to be officially relocated on account of climate change. Last November, local residents moved from the coast 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) inland to housing that the federal government built for them in Frontera, the area’s municipal capital. They had occupied vulnerable land between the river and the sea—specifically, the seaward end of a delta just downstream of the confluence of the Grijalva, Usumacinta and San Pedro Rivers. In recent years, El Bosque residents noticed windy weather and rough seas during cold fronts brought ashore ever-more floodwater and increased erosion. In 2022, the flooding came... [Log in to read more]