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Salinity may ruin vast tract of arable coastal land
2014-05-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Dhaka Tribune: Environmentalists have warned that vast stretches of coastal arable land in Bangladesh may become barren because of an alarming rise in salinitydue toa climate change-triggered rise in sea level. Researchers say none of the existing varieties of salinity-tolerant rice can stand the level of salinity that has affected some of the coastal districts. In fact, the best salinity-tolerant variety that could be developed was nowhere near the level already reached, scientists said. Bangladesh Rice...
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