Buildings under construction in downtown Miami, Florida. The 6 million people who live in the state are impacted by almost every natural phenomenon, from rising sea levels to coastal erosion, from hur...

Skyscrapers near the beach at Sunny Isle Beach, Florida. The 6 million people who live in the state are impacted by almost every natural phenomenon, from rising sea levels to coastal erosion, from hur...

Skyscrapers near the beach at Sunny Isle Beach, Florida. The 6 million people who live in the state are impacted by almost every natural phenomenon, from rising sea levels to coastal erosion, from hur...

Skyscrapers near the beach at Sunny Isle Beach, Florida. The 6 million people who live in the state are impacted by almost every natural phenomenon, from rising sea levels to coastal erosion, from hur...

Buildings under construction in downtown Miami, Florida. The 6 million people who live in the state are impacted by almost every natural phenomenon, from rising sea levels to coastal erosion, from hur...

Stilt houses in the Mangue Seco favela.

Second hand truck tires used to protect the foundations of a stilt house from high tides in the Mangue Seco slum.

Antonio Roberto da Silva (65) in the window of his stilt house that is sinking, in the slum of Mangue Seco.

Second hand truck tires used to protect the foundations of a stilt house from high tides in the Mangue Seco slum.

Discarded waste floats beneath stilt houses in the Mangue Seco slum.

Dyennifer Silva in front of her home in the Mangue Seco favela. The improvised settlement has been the subject of studies on adaptation to climate change.

Researcher Tiago Girelli takes measurements to study the impact of a marine barrier constructed to combat coastal erosion from storm surges that have worsened environmental degradation in the region.

Researcher Tiago Girelli takes measurements to study the impact of a marine barrier constructed to combat coastal erosion from storm surges that have worsened environmental degradation in the region.

A worker inspects a partially-submerged sandbag barrier wall erected to reduce the impact of coastal erosion from storm surges that have worsened environmental degradation in the region.

A truck unloads sand to be used in the construction of the submerged barrier, at Ponta da Praia, to prevent marine erosion and reduce the impact of coastal erosion from storm surges that have worsened...