Everyday Disasters

At the tip of Sagar Island where it meets the Bay of Bengal battered earthen dikes no longer keep the sea at bay.

Climate change-linked ‘everyday disasters’ are displacing the world’s poorest people

Environment

We tend to think of climate change these days in terms of big disasters like storms and droughts. But in many coastal regions, the impact is less dramatic but no less devastating. Sam Eaton reports on the slow drowning of communities in a crowded, low-lying part of India called the Sundarbans.