Thailand’s famed “floating monastery”, located south of the capital Bangkok and west of the mouth of the Chao Phraya river, is literally being wiped off the map as it becomes a symbol of the nation’s disappearing shores. The Ban Khun Samut Chin temple once stood in the middle of a village it served, but today it is being stranded by a combination of coastal erosion and rising sea levels that are stripping away shoreline at a rate of nearly 30 metres (98 feet) each year. Mangrove trees which…