In this industrial age, everyone wants a share of aquifers, rivers, lakes, and wetlands. On the Freshwater Trail, I follow the changing fortunes of riverine communities and species
All the drinking water in the world will fit in a cube that can sit over the city of Bangalore. And in this industrial age, everyone wants a share of aquifers, rivers, lakes, and wetlands. Voices get shriller and stakes rise ever higher should a river cross international boundaries. Add to all this, the unpredictability of weather patterns in the age of climate change.
On the freshwater trail, I will follow the changing fortunes of people and species in the anthropocene era
Travel along the Sela River from Mongla to the Bay of Bengal. Filmed, written, and shot over the monsoon and winter of 2014, this is a map of sights, sounds, and stories from the 'Beautiful Forest'
On December 9, 2014, 358,000 liters of heavy fuel oil gushed into the Sundarbans. The effect on the “Beautiful Forest” was not pretty
The murky matter of an oil spill in the largest unbroken stand of mangroves in the world and the murkier cover-up. A story from the Sundarbans in Bangladesh
Almost four million people depend upon the Sundarbans delta in Bangladesh and almost a million live and/or work within the forest -- fisherfolk crab-catchers, honey collectors, shrimp-fishers, among others
Heavy commercial ships carrying everything from oil to fly ash to pesticides ploughs through the ecologically fragile mangroves. The danger is very real
[…] theme is freshwater — our rivers, lakes and other water-bodies, groundwater… The linked story below that (indicated in the image above with an orange exclamation point) is prologue to her next […]