In West Bengal, melting Himalayan glaciers, dams, rising sea levels, and the coal industry are threatening farmland and the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest. By 2050, 30 million people could become climate refugees in India and Bangladesh.
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Inde, India, Hossenpur, Hossainpur, 2022-03-01. India, West Bengal, 2022-02. Sand bags are installed to prevent from the sea rising level and the soil erosion due to climate change and global…
Fishermen on the Ganga struggling with the causes of the sea rising level, the pollution and the salinisation of the the water. Photo by Alexandra DE DIVES / Collectif DR
Fishermen on the Ganga struggling with the causes of the sea rising level, the pollution and the salinisation of the the water. Photo by Alexandra DE DIVES / Collectif DR
Inde, India, Hossenpur, Hossainpur, 2022-03-01. India, West Bengal, 2022-02 Lalu is looking at his former school, destroyed by the Yaas cyclone, he became a fishermen because the new school is too…
Landscapes damaged by soil erosion. Each year the sea crops a little bit more the landscape. Sandbags are a temporary solution to prevent sea level rise. The plastic bags are causing even more…
Inde, India, Farakka barrage, 2022-03-01. India, Farakka dam, west bengal, 2022-02. The dam on the border with Bangladesh is a source of conflict between the two countries. The water diverted to…
Landscapes damaged by soil erosion. Sandbags are a temporary solution to prevent sea level rise. The plastic bags are causing even more pollution. Photo by Alexandra DE DIVES / Collectif DR
Inde, India, Mousuni Island, 2022-03-01. India, West Bengal, Mousuni Island, 2022-02. Portrait of Seema Khasel, a geologist walking on the beach devastated by salt and aluminum deposits on the beach…
Inde, India, Mousuni Island, 2022-03-01. India, West Bengal, Mousuni Island, 2022-02. The salinization of the soil has made this beach impractical because the chemical reaction with the sand has…
Inde, India, Mousuni Island, 2022-03-01. India, West Bengal, Mousuni Island, 2022-02. The salinization of the soil has made this beach impractical because the chemical reaction with the sand has…
Inde, India, Mousuni Island, 2022-03-01. India, West Bengal, Mousuni Island, 2022-03. After the yaas cyclone, the inhabitants are sorry for the disappeared mangrove forest, they have no more work…
Inde, India, Mousuni Island, 2022-03-01. India, West Bengal, Mousuni Island, 2022-03. After the yaas cyclone, the inhabitants are sorry for the disappeared mangrove forest, they have no more work…
Inde, India, Mousuni Island, 2022-03-01. India, West Bengal, Mousuni Island, 2022-03. Cyclone shelter on Mousuni Island, water rose to more than 3 meters during the last flood caused by cyclone…
Inde, India, Mousuni Island, 2022-03-01. India, West Bengal, Mousuni Island, 2022-03. Cyclone shelter on Mousuni Island, water rose to more than 3 meters during the last flood caused by cyclone…
Inde, India, Dhapa, 2022-03-01. India, West Bengal, Dhapa, 2022-03. Industrial landscapes, brick factories and coal pollution in rivers near agricultural land. Photo by Alexandra DE DIVES /…
Inde, India, Sundarbans, sandarbans, 2022-03-01. India, West Bengal, Sundarbans National Park, 2022-03. The world's largest mangrove forest is threatened by rising sea levels and surrounding coal…
Inde, India, Sundarbans, sandarbans, 2022-03-01. India, West Bengal, Sundarbans National Park, 2022-03. The world's largest mangrove forest is threatened by rising sea levels and surrounding coal…
Inde, India, Hossenpur, Hossainpur, 2022-03-01. India, West Bengal, 2022-02. Industrial landscape damaged by intense charcoal exploitation. Photo by Alexandra de Dives / Collectif DR
Inde, India, Hossenpur, Hossainpur, 2022-03-01. India, West Bengal, 2022-02. Bengali women in front of industrial landscapes. The salinization and intense exploitation of agricultural land has…