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Soon to be under the sea? Climate change endangers the very existence of Ghoramara Island in West Bengal Ghoramara Island in West Bengal is sinking due to rising sea levels, and may disappear due to climate change. See this aerial view of the Island in the Sunderbans region. Ghoramara Island is an island 92 km south of Kolkata, India in the Sundarban Delta complex of the Bay of Bengal. The island is small, roughly five square kilometers in area, and is quickly disappearing due to erosion and sea level rise, as seen aerially, from the air. Shrinking of island Global warming has caused the rivers that pour down from the Himalayas and empty into the Bay of Bengal to swell and shift in recent decades, placing these islands, known as the Sundarbans, in danger. Four islands are completely underw