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According to some reliable sources, there are about 2,000 islands “of significance” on the planet (although that is certainly a tricky phrase – significant to whom?) According to other sources, Finland is the country with the greatest number of islands (179,584), but it doesn’t seem that they are all “significant”.

India, however, seems to be the first country to lose an inhabited island to global warming. This is according to an article in The Independent:

Rising seas, caused by global warming, have for the first time washed an inhabited island off the face of the Earth. The obliteration of Lohachara island, in India's part of the Sundarbans where the Ganges and the Brahmaputra rivers empty into the Bay of Bengal, marks the moment when one of the most apocalyptic predictions of environmentalists and climate scientists has started coming true.

As the seas continue to swell, they will swallow whole island nations, from the Maldives to the Marshall Islands, inundate vast areas of countries from Bangladesh to Egypt, and submerge parts of scores of coastal cities.

Is this a tipping point? Must be to those who used to inhabit Lohachara Island.