Experts argue that melting polar ice caps and glaciers combine with erosion and the presence of submarine volcanoes, making the region conspicuously vulnerable.
With low-lying communities worldwide on the front lines of the climate crisis fight, Cartagena is conspicuously vulnerable./ Photo: AFP
On Tierra Bomba, a small island in the bay of Cartagena, the cemetery once built at a safe distance from the shore has been devastated by repeated flooding, while houses have tumbled into the waves. Cartagena, a tourist hotspot in the north of the country, could find itself almost a meter underwater by the end of this century, experts say.
These volcanic formations"are muddy, and little by little gravity puts pressure" on them, causing the terrain to flatten and the city to sink, Tosic added.
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