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India: Sinking Sunderbans islands no poll issue
2014-05-10 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hindu: Sankar Sahu might be voting for the last time on Ghoramara island in Sunderbans archipelago as the rising sea level owing to climate change threatens his mud house located on the river bank. "In one year`s time, my house will be gobbled up by the rising water level," Mr. Sahu (37), who had shifted his house three times over the last few decades, told The Hindu. "Hundreds of families have left the island and taken shelter elsewhere. They have become refugees. But we have no place to go," said...
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