BBC: “The Disappearing Island in the Chesapeake Bay”

Virginia's Tangier Island was first settled 325 years ago. But as the BBC reports, thanks to a combination of a Chesapeake Bay polluted by unchecked runoff, rising sea levels fueled by global warming, an eroding shoreline fueled by natural subsidence, Tangier Island is slowly disappearing into the Bay: Learn in the National Wildlife Federation's 2008 report on the Chesapeake Bay & sea level rise.