‘The sea has taken everything’: How rising salt is destroying Italian coast

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1. There’s a man in India who is singlehandedly trying to preserve as much of the native rice strains as he can. He can only grow a square meter of each type because there are so many. But he does have a few varieties that can grow in brackish water and are relatively salt-tolerant. I wonder if someone there can find him.

2. We have the same issue in France in the Camargue region where rice is also cultivated. It’s also a huge risk for the biodiversity with all the birds migrating or living there since they nest into freshwater habitats near the coast.

3. Sounds like groundwater depletion allowing salt water infiltration.