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 ...
Bangladesh, one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries, is increasingly at the forefront of global discussions ...
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 largest slum area in Dhaka is Korail, a densely-packed maze of tin structures and narrow alleys. According to the UN Migration Agency, 70% of residents in Korail have fled some sort of ...
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 ...
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 ...
When crab farming started gaining ground in Satkhira’s Shyamnagar upazila around a decade ago, Matiur Rahman, a farmer in his ...
Abdul Gani stood barefoot at the bow of his fishing boat, gesticulating wildly from side to side, the coast to his left. He began pointing at the locations where his neighbours used to live before ...
A rickshaw driver washing his face with water at a roadside water pipeline during a heatwave in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Apr. 15, 2024. Bangladesh has been facing increasing heat waves during summer for the ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
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 ...