Puri, India — Greenpeace today joined internationally acclaimed sand artist, Sudarshan Patnaik here to highlight the threat to India’s cultural heritage sites along the coastline from global warming induced sea level rise. Sudarshan created the miniatures of iconic heritage monuments: the Jagannath temple and Konark Sun Temple in Orissa, the Shore temple at Mammalapuram in Tamilnadu, and the Gateway of India at Mumbai, in the tidal zone of Puri’s Golden Beach. During high tide, the waves washed over the sculpture, symbolizing the vulnerability that these monuments faced from sea level rise.

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