nytimes.com: April 11, 2007 Sea’s Rise in India Buries Islands and a Way of Life By SOMINI SENGUPTA GHORAMARA ISLAND, India — Shyamal Mandal lives at the edge of ruin. In front of his small mud house lies the wreckage of what was once his village on this fragile delta island near the Bay of Bengal. Half of it has sunk into the river. Only a handful of families still hang on so close to the water, and those that do are surrounded by reminders of inexorable destruction: an abandoned half-broken... read more
