Rising Sea Sagar Island, West Bengal

As you pledge to conserve fossil fuels and ban Styrofoam cups at home to help conserve our natural habitat, spare a thought for the refugees of the inhabited islands in the world that are being submerged by the rising seas - a result of global warming. Called climactic refugees, these families of engulfed Lohachara Island in the Sunderbans now live in makeshift homes on neighbouring islands....

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