Thursday, September 11, 2008

Item:

6. Which country is slowly disappearing due to rising

sea water level? Where is it?

Answer:

The island of Lohachara, once

home to 10,000 people, has been obliterated by rising seas. The

island, located in India's part

of the Sundarbans where the

Ganges and the Brahmaputra

rivers empty into the Bay of

Bengal, is the first inhabited island to be wiped off the map.

URL:

http://global-warming.accuweather.

com/2006/12

/rising_seas_

claim_inhabited_is.html

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