Climate Migration: Flooding forces Bangladesh family to flee
2 years, 4 months ago

Climate Migration: Flooding forces Bangladesh family to flee

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy When the Mehgna River swallowed Mohammad Jewel and Arzu Begum's tin-roofed family home overnight in southern Bangladesh just over a year ago they had no choice but to leave their ancestral village. Millions are at risk of being displaced and becoming “climate refugees” because of sea level rise, river erosion, cyclonic storms and salty water creeping inland, scientists say. In the northern part of Bangladesh’s capital, officials are building shelters for climate migrants and improving the water supply, but Jewel and Begum's family are one of many unable to benefit from these projects. Her husband earns 12,000 takas a month by doing a “dirty job” going door-to-door and sorting household waste while Begum earns another 4,000 takas as a cleaner for two different houses.

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‘I have lost everything’: Bangladesh floods strand 1.24 million families
3 months, 3 weeks ago

‘I have lost everything’: Bangladesh floods strand 1.24 million families

Al Jazeera  

As floodwaters recede after heavy monsoon rains, many have lost their homes – and some blame India for a dam release. Shafiqul Alam, press secretary for Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate leading Bangladesh’s new interim government, told reporters in Dhaka that Pranay Verma, India’s high commissioner to Bangladesh, informed the interim government that the water from the dam …

How Bangladesh is supporting climate refugees
1 year ago

How Bangladesh is supporting climate refugees

BBC  

How Bangladesh is supporting climate refugees Sadiqur Rahman The home of Noor Alam and Rahmina Begum collapsed six times between 1998 and 2020 due to extreme weather Bangladesh is one of the world's most climate vulnerable countries. Sadiqur Rahman In 2021, Rahima Begum and her husband moved to a new, climate-resilient house with brick walls and a tin roof Frequent …

AP PHOTOS: In Delhi, migrants battered repeatedly by floods
2 years, 2 months ago

AP PHOTOS: In Delhi, migrants battered repeatedly by floods

Associated Press  

NEW DELHI — For Bhagwan Devi, 38, and Shivakumar, 40, and their four children, a flood follows unseasonal rain so often now they have less and less time to pick up the pieces and start over again. Devi and Shivakumar had to flee their hut on the banks of the Yamuna River earlier this month as water levels rose without …

Climate Migration: Flooding forces Bangladesh family to flee
2 years, 4 months ago

Climate Migration: Flooding forces Bangladesh family to flee

Associated Press  

BHOLA, Bangladesh — When the Mehgna River swallowed Mohammad Jewel and Arzu Begum’s tin-roofed family home overnight in southern Bangladesh just over a year ago they had no choice but to leave their ancestral village. When Jewel and Begum visited their family’s old home in Ramdaspur a year later, even more homes were washed away, the river surging through new …

Climate change a factor in ‘unprecedented’ South Asia floods
2 years, 6 months ago

Climate change a factor in ‘unprecedented’ South Asia floods

Associated Press  

SYLHET, Bangladesh — Scientists say climate change is a factor behind the erratic and early rains that triggered unprecedented floods in Bangladesh and northeastern India, killing dozens and making lives miserable for millions of others. The pattern of monsoons, vital for the agrarian economies of India and Bangladesh, has been shifting since the 1950s, with longer dry spells interspersed with …

Rain-triggered floods in Bangladesh conjure climate warnings
2 years, 6 months ago

Rain-triggered floods in Bangladesh conjure climate warnings

The Hindu  

Scientists say that climate change was likely to have made the rains that unleashed catastrophic flooding across Bangladesh worse. While South Asia's monsoon rains follow natural atmospheric patterns, the rains will become more erratic and torrential as global temperatures continue to climb, scientists say. It would take months to determine exactly how much of a role climate change played in …

Bangladesh floods: Experts say climate crisis worsening situation
2 years, 6 months ago

Bangladesh floods: Experts say climate crisis worsening situation

Al Jazeera  

The densely populated delta nation, one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable, is facing its worst floods in more than a century. Bangladesh, a densely populated delta nation, is also one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable where the poor are disproportionately impacted as frequent floods threaten livelihoods, agriculture, infrastructure and clean water supply. “The last seven years alone brought five major …

AP PHOTOS: India, Bangladesh floods destroy homes, lives
2 years, 6 months ago

AP PHOTOS: India, Bangladesh floods destroy homes, lives

Associated Press  

SYLHET, Bangladesh — Early and strong monsoon rains have brought heavy flooding to northeastern India and Bangladesh, killing dozens of people, forcing hundreds of thousands from their homes and cutting millions off from crucial supplies. Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina surveyed many of the flooded areas by helicopter Tuesday and urged regional leaders to speed up relief efforts at a …

Bangladesh faces ‘worst flooding in 100 years’ while climate talks in Bonn falter
2 years, 6 months ago

Bangladesh faces ‘worst flooding in 100 years’ while climate talks in Bonn falter

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. According to the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, about 17 per cent of people in Bangladesh will …

Bangladesh, India floods kill over 100; millions in need of aid
2 years, 6 months ago

Bangladesh, India floods kill over 100; millions in need of aid

Al Jazeera  

The worst floods in decades in northeastern parts of the two nations kill nearly 110 people and leave millions scrambling for food and medicines. Floodwaters have inundated more of Bangladesh and northeast India, officials say, as authorities struggle to reach more than 9.5 million people stranded with little food and drinking water after days of intense rain. Particularly heavy monsoon …

Photos: Food, drinking water concerns as floods batter Bangladesh
2 years, 6 months ago

Photos: Food, drinking water concerns as floods batter Bangladesh

Al Jazeera  

Floods in Bangladesh continue to wreak havoc, with the authorities struggling to ferry drinking water and dry food to flood shelters across the country’s vast northern and northeastern regions, officials and local media say. More than a dozen people have died across the country since heavy monsoon rains began last week, authorities said. Officials said water has started receding from …

41 dead, millions stranded as floods hit Bangladesh, India
2 years, 6 months ago

41 dead, millions stranded as floods hit Bangladesh, India

The Hindu  

Monsoon storms in Bangladesh and India have killed at least 41 people and unleashed devastating floods that left millions of others stranded, officials said Saturday. “And how can you cook anything when everything is underwater?” Lightning triggered by the storms has killed at least 21 people around the South Asian nation since Friday afternoon, police officials told AFP. More than …

Dozens dead, millions stranded as floods hit Bangladesh, India
2 years, 6 months ago

Dozens dead, millions stranded as floods hit Bangladesh, India

Al Jazeera  

Forecasters say the floods were set to worsen over the next two days with heavy rains in Bangladesh and upstream in India’s northeast. “And how can you cook anything when everything is underwater?” Lightning triggered by the storms has killed at least 21 people around the South Asian nation since Friday afternoon, police officials told AFP. ‘The situation is bad’ …

Photos: Deadly floods cause havoc in Bangladesh, northeast India
2 years, 7 months ago

Photos: Deadly floods cause havoc in Bangladesh, northeast India

Al Jazeera  

Days of heavy rainfall and flooding have left dozens dead and tens of thousands stranded in many parts of Bangladesh and neighbouring India. In the northeastern Sylhet region of Bangladesh, floodwaters breached a major embankment, inundating dozens of villages and killing at least 10 people, local media reports said on Sunday. More than 150 roads in the region were completely …

Women in rural Bangladesh bear rising cost of climate crisis
2 years, 7 months ago

Women in rural Bangladesh bear rising cost of climate crisis

Al Jazeera  

Study says households headed by women are allocating 30 percent of their spending on protection from climate disasters. Rural families in Bangladesh are using the bulk of their money to protect themselves and their homes from climate change, especially households headed by women who are allocating up to 30 percent of their spending for that purpose, researchers say. For the …

Climate disasters drive Bangladesh children from classrooms to work
2 years, 7 months ago

Climate disasters drive Bangladesh children from classrooms to work

The Hindu  

Twelve-year-old Alamin's house rested on the bank of the Ilsha river in southern Bangladesh until last year, when the surging river eroded it and the family's farmland away, forcing them to flee to a slum in Keraniganj, close to the capital city, Dhaka. In an August report, UNICEF, the U.N. children's agency, said children in the South Asian nations of …

Photos: The Bangladesh town offering new life to climate migrants
2 years, 8 months ago

Photos: The Bangladesh town offering new life to climate migrants

Al Jazeera  

Monira Khatun was devastated after her husband suddenly abandoned her. “My parents’ home was gone to the river for erosion, we had no land to cultivate.” She ended up working at a factory in a special economic zone that employs thousands of climate refugees – like Khatun – in the southwestern town of Mongla, where Bangladesh’s second-largest seaport is located. …

UN: Climate change to uproot millions, especially in Asia
2 years, 9 months ago

UN: Climate change to uproot millions, especially in Asia

Associated Press  

JAKARTA, Indonesia — The walls of Saifullah’s home in northern Jakarta are lined like tree rings, marking how high the floodwaters have reached each year — some more than 4 feet from the damp dirt floor. “But it’s beginning to look like in Asia, there may be more of those in the future and we need to think really hard …

‘Great distress’: Bangladesh bears brutal cost of climate crisis
3 years, 1 month ago

‘Great distress’: Bangladesh bears brutal cost of climate crisis

Al Jazeera  

Global warming devastating Bangladesh, particularly increased cyclones and floods that bring saltwater further inland. Experts say the effects of global warming are devastating Bangladesh and destroying the livelihoods of millions, particularly increased cyclones and flooding that brings saltwater further inland. Bangladesh, a country of about 160 million, has historically contributed a fraction of the world’s emissions, and yet the low-lying …

Climate migration predicted to rise in India amid extreme weather
3 years, 1 month ago

Climate migration predicted to rise in India amid extreme weather

Al Jazeera  

Study says droughts, floods and heatwaves are fuelling climate migration as nation’s poorest are forced to abandon their homes. A rise in extreme weather events in India – from droughts and floods to heatwaves and hailstorms – is fuelling climate migration as the nation’s poorest are forced to abandon their homes, land and livelihoods, researchers say. “We cannot afford to …

Rohingya: The most unwanted people in the world and monsoon is certainly not helping
3 years, 4 months ago

Rohingya: The most unwanted people in the world and monsoon is certainly not helping

India Today  

The world's largest refugee settlement is in Bangladesh, and it is in danger of being washed away. In 2017, the then United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Raád Al Hussein had gone on record to say, “The situation remains, or seems, a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.” He made this statement as hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fled …

A tenacious nation built on shape-shifting land
3 years, 10 months ago

A tenacious nation built on shape-shifting land

BBC  

A tenacious nation built on shape-shifting land Mohammad Saiful Islam/Getty Images In Bangladesh, life is played out on the 230 rivers that crisscross the nation In Bangladesh, natural disasters seem to be the only constant. "I remember we used to cross a bridge and it got washed away every other year," said Dr Monjour Mourshed, professor of sustainable engineering at …

Faster than floods: How to prevent a double disaster in Bangladesh
4 years, 4 months ago

Faster than floods: How to prevent a double disaster in Bangladesh

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery Abdus Samad Sarker collecting food for his livestock open image in gallery Monowara Begum In …

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