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Photo:DISAPPEARING_ISLAND AP By NIRMALA GEORGE, Associated Press Writer Nirmala George, Associated Press Writer - Wed Mar 24, 9:29 am ET NEW DELHI - For nearly 30 years, India and Bangladesh have argued over control of a tiny rock island in the Bay of Bengal. Now rising sea levels have resolved the dispute for them: the island's gone. New Moore Island in the Sunderbans has been completely submerged, said oceanographer Sugata Hazra, a professor at Jadavpur University in Calcutta. Its disappearance has been confirmed by satellite imagery and sea patrols, he said. "What these two countries could not achieve from years of talking, has been resolved by global warming," said Hazra. Scientists at the School of Oceanographic Studies at the university have noted an alarming increase in the rate at which sea levels have risen over the past decade in the Bay of Bengal. Another nearby island, Lohachara, was submerged in 1996, forcing its inhabitants to move to the mainland, while almost half the land of Ghoramara island was underwater, he said. At least 10 other islands in the area were at risk as well, Hazra said. "We will have ever larger numbers of people displaced from the Sunderbans as more island areas come under water," he said. Bangladesh, a low-lying delta nation of 150 million people, is one of the countries worst-affected by global warming. There were no permanent structures on New Moore, but India sent some paramilitary soldiers to its rocky shores in 1981 to hoist its national flag. The demarcation of the maritime boundary -- and who controls the remaining islands -- remains an open issue between the two South Asian neighbors, despite the disappearance of New Moore, said an official in India's foreign ministry, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on international disputes. Bangladesh officials were not available for comment Wednesday.
Report Abuse It's amazing to me how the older generation that created the policies that have led to these problems now want to bury their heads and just wait out their time on this planet pretending that nothing's wrong.
Report Abuse Global warming and Global cooling are both natural phenomenon that have been occuring for millions of years without our help and the swings have been quite sever. What would be weird is if no change at all happened to our climate.
Report Abuse It is amazing how greedy-Republicans think they can continue to spout the same tired old slogans they have been spewing for the last thirty years. They seem to be living in some fantasy world as though November 2008 didn't really happen. Republicans today remind me of Communists in late 1980s Russia -- they are rapidly becoming irrelevant. So, to Dick Cheney, Carl Rove, and all those who want to continue preaching things like "global warming is a farce," why don't you move someplace where people might listen, a place like New Moore Island.
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