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Global warming may have resolved a 30-year conflict between India and Bangladesh
over an uninhabited island in the Bay of Bengal. The rising sea has swallowed
up the 3 sq mile island in the Sunderbans, known as New Moore in India and
South Talpatti in Bangla Desh. The island has never been inhabited, but India
hoisted its flag on the island in 1981 to underscore its territorial claim.
Oceanographer Sugata Hazra told the media, “What these two countries
could not achieve from years of talking, has been resolved by global warming.”
Sea levels in the region have been rising 0.2 inches annually and
endanger at least 10 other islands in the area.
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