Heat of the Moment: Sea Level Rise

Published: April 8, 2015, 2 a.m.

Climate change is here affecting weather conditions and sea levels. In India it's also having a more surprising influence on the country's tigers. On this edition of Making Contact, reporter\xa0Daniel Grossman\xa0takes us to India\xa0in Heat of the Moment: Sea Level Rise.

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Heat of the Moment\xa0was originally produced\xa0for the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and WBUR.

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Featuring:

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  • Pranabes Sanyal,\xa0former park director for the Sunderbans Tiger Reserve
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  • Amit Mallick,\xa0Sundarbans resident and man attacked by tiger
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  • Tushar Kanjilal,\xa0secretary of the Tagore Society for Rural Development
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  • Mohammed Sheikh Gafur,\xa0Sundarbans resident and tea shop owner
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  • Sugata Hazra,\xa0an oceanographer at Calcutta\u2019s Jadavapur University
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  • Ainun Nishat\xa0representative to the International Union for Conservation of Nature
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  • Shafiqul Islam,\xa0director of a small college and founder of the Pani Committee
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  • Sheikh Nural Ala,\xa0chief engineer for this region of the Water Development Board
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  • Atiq Rahman,\xa0director of the Bangladesh Center for Advanced Studies
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  • Daniel Grossman,\xa0journalist
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