Tiny island with a global warning (BBC) {one of the Sundarbans}

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The tiny Indian island of Ghoramara, in the delta where the River Ganges meets the Bay of Bengal, is a symbol of the crisis the world is facing as it struggles to feed a growing population.

It is a tiny place - just a few kilometres across - and it is getting tinier.

The island, part of a chain called the Sundarbans, was first settled by farmers in colonial times when the authorities decided to expand rice production to feed the multitudes in the city of Calcutta.

But when I visited Ghoramara there was powerful evidence that soil erosion caused in part by farming and the rising surrounding sea level caused by global warming were gradually making the island disappear.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6495733.stm

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1. a lot of people around the world live on islands

over by India a number of populated islands are drowing and the same up in Alaska. whole towns having to move higher.