Between June and August this year, the southern Indian state of Kerala experienced the heaviest rainfall it had seen in over a century. More than a million people were displaced, over 400 people died, and an estimated US$3.7 billion worth of damage was sustained. But the environmental destruction of the area around India's Arabian Sea coastline has been taking place for years. In 1989, when Mary Punitha Vasantha moved to Valiyathura, a fishing village in Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram district, the sea (...)
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