内容摘要：Tottenham’s goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario, top, tries to save a ball over Tottenham’s Dominic Solanke during the Europa League final soccer match between Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United at the San Mamés Stadium in Bilbao, Spain, Wednesday, May 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Miguel Oses)

Tottenham’s goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario, top, tries to save a ball over Tottenham’s Dominic Solanke during the Europa League final soccer match between Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United at the San Mamés Stadium in Bilbao, Spain, Wednesday, May 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Miguel Oses)

The Gunas have tried to reinforce the island’s edge with rocks, pilings and coral, but seawater keeps coming.“Lately, I’ve seen that climate change has had a major impact,” Morales said. “Now the tide comes to a level it didn’t before, and the heat is unbearable.”

The Guna’s autonomous government decided two decades ago that they needed to think about leaving the island, but at that time it was because the island was getting too crowded. The effects of climate change accelerated that thinking, said Evelio López, a 61-year-old teacher on the island.He plans to move with relatives to the new site on the mainland that the government developed at a cost of $12 million. The concrete houses sit on a grid of paved streets carved out of the lush tropical jungle just over a mile (2 kilometers) from the port, where an eight-minute boat ride carries them to Gardi Sugdub.Leaving the island is “a great challenge, because more than 200 years of our culture is from the sea, so leaving this island means a lot of things,” López said. “Leaving the sea, the economic activities that we have there on the island, and now we’re going to be on solid ground, in the forest. We’re going to see what the result is in the long run.”

A youth dives into the sea from Gardi Sugdub Island, part of the San Blas archipelago off Panama’s Caribbean coast, Sunday, May 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)A youth dives into the sea from Gardi Sugdub Island, part of the San Blas archipelago off Panama’s Caribbean coast, Sunday, May 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Steven Paton, director of the Smithsonian Institution’s physical monitoring program in Panama, said that the upcoming move “is a direct consequence of climate change through the increase in sea level.”

“The islands on average are only a half-meter above sea level, and as that level rises, sooner or later the Gunas are going to have to abandon all of the islands almost surely by the end of the century or earlier.”Lala Rudge poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film ‘It was just an accident’ at the 78th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (Photo by Lewis Joly/Invision/AP)

Lala Rudge poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film ‘It was just an accident’ at the 78th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (Photo by Lewis Joly/Invision/AP)A Thai Air Force officer adjusts the cap of a member of an honor guard in preparation for the arrival of Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto at the Government house in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

A Thai Air Force officer adjusts the cap of a member of an honor guard in preparation for the arrival of Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto at the Government house in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)Children play in the waves on the Yemeni island of Socotra on Sept. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)