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Inside Sundarbans: Wildlife and climate displacements haunt partition refugeesCentenarian Mohindhoro Patra is a rare living witness to the making of 20th century settlements in the Sundarbans, the majority of which sp...
24 Aug, 2018, 10.58 PM IST
West Bengal polls: One last vote before the river swallows Ghoramara IslandAccording to oceanographers, more than 51% of the island has been washed away since 1972. Experts believe it could disappear into the river...
29 Mar, 2016, 12.21 PM IST
Sunderbans sea level to rise 3-8 mm per year: World Bank reportThe report stated that the sea level rise could mainly be attributed to land subsidence caused by various natural and anthropogenic process...
30 Mar, 2015, 10.27 AM IST
- Sunderbans sea level to rise 3-8 mm per year: World Bank report
The water level in the Sunderbans, the world's largest mangrove forest, is rising at an "alarming" level, endangering the habitation, a Wor...
30 Mar, 2015, 10.16 AM IST
- New Moore isle no more, expert blames warming
The New Moore island near the Bay of Bengal is being swallowed by the rising sea, making it one of the earliest instances of a patch of ter...
25 Mar, 2010, 01.31 AM IST
- Global warming taking toll of island
Global warming has taken toll of half of an island from where over 7000 people have been displaced and it might be a matter of time before ...
25 Feb, 2009, 08.50 PM IST