Cyclone Amphan
Cyclonic stormFor Bangladesh’s climate migrants, pandemic job cuts fuel ‘multiple crises’
Bangladesh is one of the world’s largest exporters of labour, with nearly 700,000 people getting jobs abroad annually prior to the pandemic
Seemingly unrelated crises share common roots, researchers say
Many everyday individual choices, like eating a chicken sandwich for lunch, have direct links to threats ranging from forest and species loss to climate change
4.4 million internally displaced in Bangladesh in 2020
As soon as the monsoon started, Sirajganj and Chandpur city protection embankments broke. Hurricane Yash had earlier displaced large numbers of people off the coast and in the islands
UN Special Session
PM Hasina for stronger global coop to mitigate water-related disasters
During monsoon 90 per cent water enters into Bangladesh from catchments beyond its border inundating localities while during dry season, a drought-like situation prevails across the country, says ...
Sundarbans submerged after Cyclone Yaas
The Forest department said this year Cyclone Yaas submerged the largest area of Sundarbans in the last 14 years.
Rehabilitate people of the devastated coastal area
Assistance will first have to be given to the worst affected before anything else.
A year after Cyclone Amphan, for some survivors ‘there is nothing’
A year after Amphan roared through South Asia, killing more than 100 people and causing more than $13 billion in damages, an estimated half-million people in southern Bangladesh’s Khulna, Satkhira ...
13 years of Sidr, coastal areas still await sustainable dams to escape tidal surge
A warning has been issued as more than five million people across 14 coastal districts are still trapped in the deluge. Hatia, another island of Chattogram, was also inundated
Cyclone Yaas
Tornedo hits Hooghly, North 24 Parganas
Though the weather department said that these kinds of tornadoes are common ahead of a major cyclone but also admitted that it is very unlikely at a place which is nearly 210 kilometres away from the ...
Super Cyclone ‘Yash’ might hit Sundarbans between 23-25 May
The met department warned that the ferocity of the cyclonic Storm named by Oman might equal that of ‘Amphan’ that devastated Kolkata and adjoining areas on 19 May last year during the lockdown
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