Philobiblon

An inhabited island – and an island that was inhabited by 10,000 people – has fallen victim to the rising sea levels of climate change.

Lohachara is, or rather was, in the India’s part of the Sundarbans, where the Ganges and the Brahmaputra rivers empty into the Bay of Bengal. It was home to 10,000 people. They have become refugees on the nearby island of Sagar, joining many of the people of another island Ghoramara, which has lost two-thirds of its area to the sea.