Kerala losing paddy paradise to floods{br} https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Experts attribute the flooding to unseasonal rains and to the lowland sinking even further — the first a direct consequence of deforestation of the Western Ghats, and the latter, a result of rising sea levels. The sea-level rise is still fractional but in Kuttanad it might prove catastrophic.

from Times of India https://ift.tt/3Co0JkH