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India's climate refugees

2 Jun 2015

Coastal erosion and increasing sea levels are gradually eating away at the land in the Sundarbans. Many people from the villages are being forced to migrate to cities, like Kolkata, because their fertile land is turning saline with an increasing number of storms and floods.
climate change land erosion sea salinity the sundarbans
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Kolkata
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Source
Europeana https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/2051904/data_euscreenXL_2005399

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