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<P class=headlineblack><STRONG><FONT size=5>Inhabited Island Vanishes Beneath
the Waves; Global Warming Blamed </FONT></STRONG></P>
<P>Sunday , December 24, 2006</P>
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<P>An inhabited island has been wiped off the face of the Earth due to global
warming, Britain’s The Independent site reported on Sunday.</P>
<P>The remote Lohachara Island was part of the Sundarbans Island Chain near the
Bay of Bengal in India. Rising sea levels have swallowed the island whole,
according to the report. It was once home to 10,000 people.</P>
<P>Lohachara’s disappearance wasn’t easy to discover. Satellites monitored it
until it finally disappeared.</P>
<P>Two-thirds of a neighboring island, Ghoramara, has also been claimed by
water.</P>
<P>The disappearance of Lohachara Island comes eight years after uninhabited
islands in the Pacific were overtaken. As a result of their going under, the
people of low-lying islands in Vanuatu, also in the Pacific, have been
evacuated.</P>
<P>Researchers at Calcutta’s Jadavpur University studying the phenomenon for six
years say there are now about a dozen “vanishing islands” in the region.</P><A
href="http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2099971.ece"
target=_blank>Click here to read the report in The Independent.</A>
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