Climate change is causing
toxic metals trapped in the sediment beds of the Hooghly estuary in the Indian
Sunderbans to leach out into the water system due to changes in ocean
chemistry, say scientists, warning of potential human health hazards. They
predict that after about 30 years, increasing ocean acidification - another
dark side of spiked atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide - could in fact unlock
the entire stock of metals like copper and lead gathered in the sediment layer,