Tiny Island, Fought Over by India & Bangladesh, Vanishes Into the Sea

Remember that time you and your sibling couldn't stop fighting over a toy, so your mom wouldn't let either one of you have it? It seems the same thing happens to unhappy neighboring countries and Mother Nature. The island in the Bay of Bengal that Bangladesh called South Talpatti and India called New Moore or Purbasha appeared after a devastating cyclone, and it appeared right near the territorial boundary between the two. Decades of fighting over the uninhabited speck of land led to no political resolution. But now there's a perfectly clear geographical resolution: The sea has reclaimed the island, scientists say. According to oceanographer Sugata Hazra, the island was never very big, peaking at around 1.3 miles by 1.1 miles.