More salty rivers driven by climate change

A new study from the University of Portsmouth has sounded a global climate alarm, warning that rising sea levels are pushing saltwater inland at an accelerating pace – with severe consequences for water, food and communities.Focusing on the Bengal Delta in Bangladesh – the world’s largest river delta – researchers tracked two decades of data from 50 monitoring stations.
They found that salinity levels have steadily risen, with stepwise increases since 2007, often linked t