Aidan Hartley Aidan Hartley

The astonishing resilience of my beach paradise

There is evidence of the effects of climate change, but the marine environment bounces back quickly

issue 24 August 2019

Malindi

  I could measure my whole life in the summers I’ve spent on the beach in front of our family’s seaside house on Kenya’s north coast. Walking along the white sand, eyes down among the flotsam, seaweed, cuttlebones and ghost crabs, for decades I have been finding shards of blue and white porcelain washed up from some lost wreck.
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