ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 8月2日 04時20分

Our journalist Somini Sengupta was born in Kolkata, India. Today, she writes, the city is becoming a climate casualty. It didn’t have to be. Kolkata is facing more intense and more frequent storms, cyclones, river tides and floods. The muggy days are getting hotter and muggier. Most worrying, the sprawling metropolis of 14 million is utterly unprepared. Kolkata — formerly known as Calcutta — had natural defenses: the mighty Ganges to the west and wetlands to the east, all emptying into the mangrove-rich delta region known as the Sundarbans and out to the Bay of Bengal. The city’s lakes and creeks could once swallow the rains and the soft clay soil could hold groundwater. But today, many lakes and canals are filled with muck or built over altogether. An area of low-lying fields that once absorbed the runoff is now a suburb of high-rises. The rapid extraction of groundwater is causing the landscape to sink. The city is no stranger to flooding, but the risk has increased as extreme rainfall events have become more common. @khandelwal_saumya took this photo fishermen emptying nets in the wetlands. Visit the link in our profile to read more about the natural defenses that are being lost in #Kolkata.

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