Monday 21 April 2008

Rising sea levels threaten to flood many of the islands in the fertile Ganges delta. Across the delta, homes have been swept away, fields ravaged by worsening monsoons. Lying one-third in India and two-thirds in Bangladesh, the Sundarbans are where two of Asia's biggest rivers, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra, widen and flow into the Bay of Bengal. Read the rest here.

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