In India, 10,000 people called the island of Lohachara home.
Today, it's under water.
From the article (which is fairly short, and should be read in its entirety):
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.
It's no longer a hypothetical situation. It's actually happening. Real people have had their real homes washed away by the sea. They're homeless now, refugees from global warming. Satellite photos show that several islands in the same island chain are now gone. Other islands are quickly losing acreage to the rising waters.
The next time the conservative uncle in your family tells you nothing is proven, mention the island of Lohachara. He'll likely never have heard of it. But the people, and the devastation they experienced, are all too real.
Theirs was the first populated island the rising oceans have taken in memory. It won't be the last.