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The Vanishing Islands Of India's Sundarbans
2016-05-23 22:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: A boat approaches Ghoramara island in India's Sundarbans. Most traffic goes the other way, as thousands of Ghoramara residents have left the flood-prone island in recent years. David Gilkey/NPR hide caption toggle caption David Gilkey/NPR A boat approaches Ghoramara island in India's Sundarbans. Most traffic goes the other way, as thousands of Ghoramara residents have left the flood-prone island in recent years. David Gilkey/NPR People in India know the Sundarbans as a beautiful and dangerous...
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March against coal plant threat to Bangladesh's Sundarbans forest
2016-03-02 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Thousands of Bangladeshis will march from the countrys capital, Dhaka, to the worlds biggest mangrove forest next week in protest at plans to build two coal-power plants on the edge of the World Heritage-listed forest. The organisers of the so-called long march on 10 March hope to persuade the Bangladeshi government to drop its backing for construction of the plants near the Sundarbans, an area of rice paddies, shrimp farms and vast mangrove forests. No sensible person will deny that there...
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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...
Sundarbans still reeling from effects of December oil spill
2015-01-21 21:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Last month, an estimated 350,000 liters of fuel oil spilled into the Sundarbans delta on the Bay of Bengal. An oil tanker that had collided with a cargo vessel on December 9th sank into the Shela River, spilling its oil into a protected sanctuary for the rare and endangered Irrawaddy dolphins (Orcaella brevirostris) and the Ganges river dolphins (Platanista gangetica). The navigation route through Shela River had been unauthorized, yet about 200 boats and ships carrying cargo or oil would ply...
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Fears for rare wildlife as oil 'catastrophe' strikes Sundarbans
2014-12-13 13:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Environmental authorities have been placed on high alert amid fears a major oil spill off India's east coast could threaten the habitats and lives of rare animals including dolphins, tigers and crocodiles. Around 77,000 gallons of oil spilled into the waters of the world-famous Sundarbans nature reserve in neighbouring Bangladesh on Tuesday after a collision between a tanker and another vessel. "This catastrophe is unprecedented in the Sundarbans and we don't know how to tackle this," Amir...