Floating gardens in the Wetland Research and Training Centre (WRTC) run by the Bangladesh Center for Advanced Studies. Captions and Photo source: ©© Aarjan Dixit, World Resources Institute
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Increased salinity now affects farmlands in 52 of the roughly 102 inhabited islands on the Indian side of the massive tidal mangrove forest covering some 10,000 km in the vast Bay of Bengal delta.
Studies show that the region lost some 5.5 square km per year between 2001 and 2009, compared to four square km annually over the previous four decades…
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