T he water mark on Naira Santa Rita’s wall told the story before she could find the words for it. High and brown, like a scar, it was the line left by the floodwater on 15 February 2022 – the night Petrópolis drowned. Within minutes, the mountain city she called home became a war zone. From her window, she watched bodies float past in the streets below. More than 230 people died that night , in what was until then Brazil’s worst climate disaster. But Santa Rita’s story extends far beyond that single tragedy. She is one among millions in a global crisis that remains largely invisible: climate displacement, a phenomenon that disproportionately destroys women’s lives. The mudslide in Petrópolis in February 2022 killed 233 people, and displaced many more. Photograph: Mariana Rocha The numbers are staggering. Over the past decade, climate-related disasters have displaced 250 million people globally – equivalent to 70,000 people forced from their homes every day.…