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Millions at risk from rapid sea rise in swampy Sundarbans
2015-02-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The tiny hut sculpted out of mud at the edge of the sea is barely large enough for Bokul Mondol and his family to lie down. The water has taken everything else from them, and one day it almost certainly will take this, too. Saltwater long ago engulfed the 5 acres where Mondol once grew rice and tended fish ponds, as his ancestors had on Bali Island for some 200 years. His thatch-covered hut, built on public land, is the fifth he has had to build in the last five years as the sea creeps in. "Every...
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