Sunk by global warming? Wave goodbye to this disputed island
Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 02:42
in Earth & Climate
India and Bangladesh have been trying to snatch from each other a tiny landmass that first surfaced in the 1970s in the Bay of Bengal. It has resubmerged, an apparent casualty of climate change. Global warming appears to have finally resolved a dispute that gunboats never could: An island midway between India and Bangladesh that became a catalyst for military threats in the...