On a 2013 trip to the Kruta River near Cape Gracias a Dios on the Miskitu Coast of Caribbean Honduras and the Nicaraguan Border, life without roads and little electricity proceeds slowly, detached from the world at large. As sea levels rise, already economically-marginalized coastal villages in the mangrove swamps are slowly being inundated by the rising tides.
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Updated 11 October 2021
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