Global warming claims tropical island

For the first time, an inhabited island has disappeared beneath rising seas.

24 December 2006
The Independent

Rising seas, caused by global warming, have for the first time washed an inhabited island off the face of the Earth. The obliteration of Lohachara island, in India's part of the Sundarbans where the Ganges and the Brahmaputra rivers empty into the Bay of Bengal, once home to 10,000 people, is unprecedented. MORE...