JHARKHALI, India - Rising sea levels, erosion, and increasingly brackish waters have ruined once-dependable crops, forcing farmers into the forest to forage.
Scientists say global warming has contributed to the Bay of Bengal rising more than 3 millimeters a year, causing more floods. One of the largest islands is predicted to shrink by 15 percent by 2020.
Oh, global warming again, huh?
See: Sorry to ruin the fun, but an ice age cometh
Yeah, readers, I am sick of the damn lies, you bet I am!!!!
As India booms, its many irrigation and hydropower projects have also reduced the flow of the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers, which feed the Sundarbans. That means less fresh water in the tidal basin. The changes have made watermelons, once an attractive crop, impossible to grow. Rice paddies, the backbone of both the village diet and its economy, are producing less. Harvest season comes earlier every year.
The tigers are suffering from the changes, too. Once more commonly spotted in the south, where no humans live, they have been increasingly seen in northern woods, closer to the inhabited islands.
Tigers are like any other animal (including humans): they go where the food is.
