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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | In Two Corners of Bengal’s Coast, ‘Fire’ and Water Hold Women Hostage -Soumashree Sarkar and Pawanjot Kaur

In Two Corners of Bengal’s Coast, ‘Fire’ and Water Hold Women Hostage -Soumashree Sarkar and Pawanjot Kaur

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published Published on Jan 11, 2022   modified Modified on Jan 11, 2022

-TheWire.in

A ground report from two fishing villages, one in East Medinipur and the other in the Sundarban, reflects how various expressions of climate change leave a mark on health and wellbeing, especially of women.

Jharkhali/ Nijkasba, West Bengal: It is easy to consider the south of West Bengal as an unwieldy side of the world that is acutely stricken by the climate crisis.

Buzzwords like ‘salinity’, ‘storm surge’, ‘water-level rise’ and ‘ocean warming’ define the place, as does ‘poverty’. These words give an impression of uniform and pervasive suffering in the region. They conjure visions of floods and shelters – you gauge that residents don’t have an easy job surviving. News reports draw attention to numerous cyclones which appear to brutally affect the whole coastline. 

But in fact, the effects of climate change are so unsparing of smaller details that two places not far from each other on the Bengal coast are confronted with two different aspects of it.

A 2013 study by Central University of Odisha’s Dr Kakoli Banerjee measuring salinity in the Sundarban from 1990 to 2012 found that the waters of the eastern part of the Indian Sundarban are more saline than in the west.

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TheWire.in, 11 January, 2022, https://thewire.in/women/bay-of-bengal-climate-change-health-women


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