Scientific American: It’s a restful sound, waves, unless they happen to be submerging the island or coastal plain you call home. A combination of climate change and bad environmental practices like coral mining is now swamping some low-lying lands. Take the islands off the coast of Panama. These Caribbean islands regularly find themselves inundated with seawater for days–and some indigenous inhabitants have begun to move to hillsides on the mainland. New research from the National Center for …