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Antonio Mayoral, 76, walks past the place where his house once stood in El Bosque, Mexico, Nov. 7, 2022, amid rising sea levels that are destroying homes built on the shoreline and forcing villagers to relocate. Rising sea levels and other environmental disasters attributed to climate change are the focus of delegates to the United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP28, being held Nov. 30 to Dec. 12, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (OSV News photo/Gustavo Graf, Reuters) Antonio Mayoral, 76, walks past the place where his house once stood in El Bosque, Mexico, Nov. 7, 2022, amid rising sea levels that are destroying homes built on the shoreline and forcing villagers to relocate. Rising sea levels and other environmental disasters attributed to climate change are the focus of delegates to the United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP28, being held Nov. 30 to Dec. 12, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (OSV News photo/Gustavo Graf, Reuters)

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