The data in this post sourced from:
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2099971.ece
I don’t know if this is some tree-hugging extremist web site, but if the facts are true, this is quite scary…
“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, marks the moment when one of the most apocalyptic predictions of environmentalists and climate scientists has started coming true.”
I copy / pasted the whole article – just click the more link below.
