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 Rising sea levels and tidal erosion eating up Sunderbans [1]

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For the past 15 years or so, Rabindranath Das has been watching the ground slip away from beneath his feet. Back in the 1990s, his family had about 3.5 hectares (ha) of paddy fields along Ghoramara island's northwestern shores. But every year, especially during the monsoons, the Hooghly's strong undercurrents would erode a bit more of the riverbank's slopes, triggering sudden collapses of large sections of the bank. Every year, either the river or advancing embankments would swallow a fresh swathe of his family's land. Now, less than a quarter of a hectare and the thatched mud house they live in, remain. The paddy harvested from this field feeds Das's 12-member family

Publication Date: 
14/01/2007
Down to Earth [2]
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Land Use [3], Soil Erosion [4], Sundarbans [5], Islands [6], Mangroves [7], Bay Of Bengal [8], Climate Change [9], Global Warming [10], Sea Level Rise [11], Displacement [12], Landless [13], Rehabilitation [14], India [15], West Bengal [16], Statistics [17]

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