The social audit reveals that frequent cyclones, tidal surges, salinity intrusion, river erosion and prolonged waterlogging have severely disrupted livelihoods, housing, food security and access to sa ...

Climate change activists on Monday said that the union parishads are neither capable nor ready to reduce climate risks even ...

SATKHIRA, Bangladesh — On a cloudy Friday morning, Asma Akhter took a break from fishing for minnows. Her clothes still wet, she sat outside her two-room home, gazing out at the waters that are both ...

The lights are out here in my home city of Dhaka as I write these words. Cyclone Sitrang has knocked out the electricity in Bangladesh’s capital, plunging much of this city of 22 million people into ...

The low-lying nation of Bangladesh suffers disproportionately from climate change, despite producing just 0.5 percent of the world’s carbon emissions. It’s also creating innovative ways to predict and ...

Farida Akhter said that Bangladesh receives significantly more attention and importance in international forums when ...

In coastal Bangladesh, saline intrusion is more than an environmental problem — it has become a daily threat to health. Children, especially girls, often walk long distances to fetch drinking water, l ...

Coastal erosion adds tens of thousands more. Cyclones trigger mass temporary displacement that increasingly becomes permanent ...

When Super Cyclone Aila hit Bangladesh in May 2009, the house of Rekha Rani and Alan Goldar and their two children was swept away. About 500 people died in the cyclone. The Goldar family survived, but ...

Policymakers, development practitioners and disability rights advocates have called for urgent reforms to make Bangladesh’s ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Climate change-driven extreme weather - from flooding and mudslides to blistering heat - is accelerating migration to Bangladesh's cities, raising the risks of ...

The low-lying nation of Bangladesh suffers disproportionately from climate change, despite producing just 0.5 percent of the world’s carbon emissions. It’s also creating innovative ways to predict and ...