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BANGLADESH-BRITAIN-AID-ENVIRONMENT-CLIMATE-WARMING
TO GO WITH AFP STORY 'Bangladesh-Britain-aid-environment-climate-warming' by Shafiq Alam
Bangladeshi fishermen go fishing near a newly-formed land at Boyer Char on August 24, 2008. Leaders of the impoverished South Asian nation will appeal in London on September 10 to the British government and other international donors for financial and technical support to fight the consequences of climate change. But not everyone agrees with the dire predictions for Bangladesh. At Boyer Char village, 200 kilometres (125 miles) north of the Kutubdiapara settlement, 55-year-old Nasir Sareng enjoys living conditions his southern neighbours can only dream about. The newly formed land he lives on was created when sediment from the big Himalayan rivers -- the Ganges and the Brahmaputra -- began settling on the coast's edge in the 1980s. The Dhaka-based Centre for Environment and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS) has studied 32 years of satellite images and says the country's landmass has increased by 20 square kilometres (eight square miles) annually. It says 1,000 square kilometres of land has risen from the sea in the past three decades. The rivers, which meet in the centre of Bangladesh, carry more than a billion tonnes of sediment every year and a third of it rests on the southern coastline where the new territory is forming. AFP PHOTO/Farjana Khan GODHULY
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BOYER CHAR, BANGLADESH |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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FARJANA KHAN GODHULY |
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24 August 2008 |
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