Environment, climate and policy from the world’s largest delta
The ground has warned us twice in seven months. We have sixty rescuers, twenty-three million people, and a city built mostly without permission. Here is what a big one would actually do — and why almost none of it is the earthquake's fault.
Bangladesh already has the laws, the data, and even a list of the nine industrial zones killing its rivers. What it lacks is the will to enforce any of it — and no new political promise will change that
Rising salinity in coastal Bangladesh is destroying farmland, contaminating drinking water, and forcing communities into poverty and displacement. Climate change and sea-level rise are accelerating the problem, leaving millions with shrinking options and deteriorating health.
