Mumbai The state environment department on Wednesday initiated a first-of-its-kind project to study the impact of climate change in Maharashtra.

The government is planning an extensive exercise to map a

Priscilla Jebaraj

NEW DELHI: For the first time, the Survey of India is going to map the country's vast 7,500-km-long coastline, identifying areas vulnerable to high tides, rising sea levels and coastal erosion, in an unusually comprehensive hazard-mapping exercise to be completed over the next five years.

Calcutta, March 24: Climate change has erased the source of a three-decades-old Indo-Bangladesh dispute.

Both countries have over the years claimed that New Moore Island, known as Purbasha in India and South Talpatti Island in Bangladesh, is their territory.

Now, global warming and a consequent rise in the sea level has submerged the 3.5km-by-3km island completely.

Kolkata: The New Moore island in the Bay of Bengal is being swallowed by the rising sea, making it one of the earliest instances of a patch of territory ceasing to exist because of global warming.

Once a flashpoint in Indo-Bangla ties, the New Moore island or Purbasha in the Bay of Bengal, which Dhaka called the South Talpatti, has ceased to exist, consumed by hungry tides and the rising sea.

This was announced on Monday by the School of Oceanographic Studies, Jadavpur University after it scrutinised recent satellite maps of the region.