Al Gore and Bangladesh PM spar over coal plants in the Sundarbans

Mongabay
Mar 30, 2017, 3:05 pm153 pts
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, star of the upcoming An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, has come out against the hugely controversial coal plants under construction in Bangladesh’s Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest and a buffer for the low-lying country against rising seas and…

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