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Global Warming Makes International Dispute a Moot Point
For thirty years, India and Bangladesh have contested ownership of a tiny rocky outcrop of an island in the Sunderbans known as New Moore Island to the Indians and South Talpatti Island to the Bangladeshis. Now just call it sunk beneath the waves, as rising seas has ended the dispute and claimed the island for itself.
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Dear EarthTalk: Are there any conservation efforts focused on animal species endemic to islands likely to be submerged by rising sea levels? – H. Wyeth, Anahola, HI
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Writer and Human Rights Officer for the UN Secretariat Mehrunnisa Yusuf reflects on a recent visit to the island nation of Maldives, and how their approach to adaptation to climate change should send a message to the rest of the world.
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Dear EarthTalk: With all the talk of rising seas, what could happen to the rivers that flow into the oceans? Will they reverse flow? Will rising seas back up into fresh water lakes? And what happens to our groundwater should saltwater flow backwards into it?
– Sandy Smith, concerned Michigander
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Dear EarthTalk: I came home today to yet another set of phonebooks at my front door. I feel they are a great waste of paper, especially in this electronic age. How can I stop getting these books? Better yet: How can we get the phone companies to stop making them?
— Bill Jones, via e-mail
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