He Fishes With Otters: But Bangladesh's Rising Saltwater Is Killing Them (opens in new tab)

The Moon hangs above us, almost ignored until she swings in close\. In the supermoon window, the Sun, Moon and Earth tighten their grip and Asia’s king tides push farther inland than people can remember\. In Bangladesh’s Sundarbans, otter fisherman Shashudhar reads the sky like a clock but the salt water of the king tide is moving upriver and making otters sick and thinning the bounty\. In Kalabagi, honey hunter Zafar Gazi has to race against time to move his family 30 kilometres inland befor...