(Al Jazeera) October 10, 2009 – In the middle of the world’s largest delta, an island is disappearing. Bhola Island is the “ground zero” of climate change, and home to what have been called the world’s first climate refugees. Bangladesh’s largest island is located where one of the country’s mightiest rivers, the Meghna, meets the […]
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(DFID) July 13, 2009 – The UK is today launching a major action plan to protect 15 million of the world’s poorest people from the devastating impact of climate change in some of most high-risk flood areas on the planet. A fifth of Bangladesh – an area almost twice the size of London – could […] (IRIN) June 25, 2009 – The debate on providing protection to possibly several million “climate refugees” displaced by the vagaries of nature is heating up. Bangladesh, which may lose up to one-fifth of its surface area if sea levels rise by one metre, called for provisions in the immigration polices of industrial countries to accept […] [Agence VU] In the last 10 years, farmers like Hatem Ali have had to disassemble and move their tin-and-bamboo houses five times to escape the encroaching waters of the huge Brahmaputra River in Kurigram. This river is swollen out of all proportion by severe monsoon that scientists attribute to global warming and melting ice in […] [Al Jazeera] – In Bangladesh, local people are feeling the heat of climate change. Once a 250 square kilometer island, Kutubdia has been reduced to just 37 square kilometers within a century and more than half of the population has been forced to leave. And it is not the only island put at risk by […] |
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