Fisherman Claude van Leen has been sitting idle in Hout Bay harbour near Cape Town for six months because shifting winds have made the water too warm for his catch. He blames climate change. “People are selling boats, and they are losing their livelihoods,” van Leen says in the cramped cabin of an old vessel. […]

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