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Journey To The Sundarbans: The 'Beautiful Forest' Of Mangroves

By Ari Shapiro
Published May 17, 2016 at 3:26 PM CDT

Sundarbans literally means "beautiful forest," but as the novelist Amitav Ghosh writes, "There is no prettiness here to invite the stranger in." The largest mangrove forest in the world — home to man-eating tigers and hungry tides — is already seeing the impact of climate change.

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