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Archive for May 11th, 2010


   May 11

Island claimed by India and Bangladesh falls victim to rising sea levels.

New Moore in the Sunderbans sinks below waves. 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 has gone. New Moore island in the Sunderbans has been completely submerged, said oceanographer Sugata Hazra, [...]

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