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Greenpeace ‘Climate Voices’ photography: Sinking Sundarbans
AP Photo / Peter Caton, Greenpeace/ho (source: Flicker Creative Commons/Sky Lanterns India)
‘The Sundarbans, a network of islands that spans the mouth of the Ganges delta from eastern India to Bangladesh, are sinking rapidly. The seas around the islands in the Bay of Bengal that support a unique mangrove ecosystem are rising faster than anywhere else on Earth, and the lives and livelihoods of more than 4 million residents are under threat from rising waters and a greater number of cyclones.’
–Guardian
Check out this beautiful and tragic Greenpeace slideshow of the Sundarbans by photographer Peter Caton.
Sinking Sundarbans – Climate voices from India
Photos by Peter Caton, interviews by Cristiane Aoki
Additional resources:
The Guardian – Sinking Sundarbans: An exhibition of photographs by Peter Caton
The Independent – The sinking Sundarbans
Tags: Greenpeace, India, Peter Caton, photo, photograph, sinking, Sundarbans
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