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Shortage of safe land blocks Sri Lanka disaster relocation efforts

2016-06-28 11:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Every time the wind picks up in the night, the Karunadasas get the shivers. The couple has been living in this remote village in the western foothills of Sri Lankas central mountains for over five decades. But since May, when a massive landslide hit another mountain slope 15 kilometers away, they have struggled to sleep at night. The landslide, which followed relentless rainfall, buried 130 people in the Egalpitiya area. But the Karunadasas village may have been on the verge of slipping as...

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