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Watch Tower: Science drowns at land's end [1]

They cannot measure it in metres; they cannot explain what is happening, but they know they can no longer cope or adapt. My colleague Pradip Saha has been filming in Ghoramara, an island in the Sunderban delta, to understand why, in this zone suspended between land and water, people talk of nothing but subsidence. Savita's narration captures the mood.

Publication Date: 
30/04/2008
Sunita Narain [2]
Central Chronicle (Bhopal) [3]
Tags:
Land Resources [4], Sundarbans [5], Climate Impacts [6], Sea Level Rise [7]
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[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/sea-level-rise