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Meet the Indian islanders losing ground to the sea

2015-11-13 15:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Home: When the ice on the mountains melt, the sea level rises and causes flooding, says Firoz all of twelve years. For this young inhabitant of Ghoramara Island, located in the Bay of Bengal, climate change is not just a lesson in geography but an everyday reality. One night my mother woke me up hurriedly saying that our house was crumbling, he recollects with a toothy grin, his innocence evidently untouched by misery. Once sprawling across 8.51 sq km, Ghoramara, part of Hooghly rivers estuary,...

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