the incredible disappearing island
"Hey Rocky! Watch me pull an island out of my hat!" "not again...."

Lohachara Island was in the Indian part of the Sundarbans, a vast mangrove delta where the Ganges empties into the Bay of Bengal on the Indian-Bangladeshi border. Was not is. Rising sea levels have swallowed the island (home to 10,000 people) whole. Welcome to the greenhouse waterworld. It's not the first time, according to Salshdot, "eight years ago the first uninhabited islands - in the Pacific atoll nation of Kiribati - vanished beneath the waves." And as you might remember I was writing about the low-lying islands in Vanuatu, also in the Pacific, tat were evacuated as a precaution a while back ...and of course out .tv's will help the Tuvaluvians find a new home (heck, who wouldn't invite them and their dotTV to relocate... but this latest one Lohachara has a lot of people worried... it's a big change. Probably won't be the last time we hear of islands disappearing.