Rising Tides, Vanishing Coconuts: Tanzania’s Pangani Faces a Reckoning With the Sea

September 22, 2026 by Rachel Moyo

Rising Tides, Vanishing Coconuts: Tanzania’s Pangani Faces a Reckoning With the

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Along Tanzania’s Pangani River, saltwater is moving inland, coconut harvests are shrinking and mangroves are swallowing farmland. For the communities living between the river and the Indian Ocean, sea-level rise is no longer a distant climate warning. It is changing where they farm, fish and live.

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