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Vultures roam the sand in the Brazilian resort town of Atafona amid the ruins of the latest houses destroyed by the sea, whose relentless rise has turned the local coastline into an apocalyptic landscape.
The Atlantic Ocean advances an average of six meters (nearly 20 feet) a year in Atafona, a small town north of Rio de Janeiro, which has long been prone to extreme erosion -- now exacerbated by climate change. The sea has already submerged more than 500 houses, turning the once idyllic coastline into an underwater graveyard of wrecked structures.
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Goussainville (France), Aug 27 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Mario García Sánchez / Christophe Petit-Tesson) Just 15 kilometers from Paris, a small town refuses to fall into oblivion half a century after the construction of Charles Airport de Gaulle, a project that led 1,000 residents to abandon their homes under pressure from the French administration to demolish them. FOOTAGE FROM GOUSSAINVILLE'S "OLD COUNTRY" RESOURCE (VIEUX-PAYS)SOUNDBITES OF PHILIPPE VIEILLIARD, HONORARY PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION IN DEFENSE OF THE PEOPLE AND SACRISTAN OF THE CHURCH OF SAINT-PAIERRE; AND OF PIERRE MURILLO, AN OLD NEIGHBOR, SON OF SPANISH REPUBLICAN PARENTS EXILE IN FRANCE.TRANSLATION:Vieilliard:1. "We'll see what he does. I don't know if we can be hopeful, but we're going to ask him to do something. So far he's been cleaning the streets a little better and even installed a second bell in the church. So that's a little sign, but it has to start out stronger than that. "2. Murillo: a lot of people believed what they were told, they were going to destroy the whole town, it was always small but very nice and fun, everyone knew each other around here
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