Sunday, November 25, 2012

Coastal Erosion Reaches Alarming Levels in Vietnam

Inter Press Service: For the last decade, many families in this southwestern Vietnamese province have been uprooted at least once every two years - but this is not due to economic or political upheaval. Rather, extreme weather has forcibly turned many of these coast-dwellers into unwilling travellers, as raging storms and a rising sea level lead to continued loss of land - and home. "Each year, sea waves have eroded about three to four metres of land," says a 47- year-old fisher from the Tay Yen commune. "Our family...

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