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At the break of dawn, Amir Hossain gets out of bed and steps into his Bathan, a shed where animals are housed and maintained. He starts his day by milking buffaloes, a routine he has maintained for almost a decade now.
Sidr was considered as fierce a cyclone as the ones that hit the country in 1970 and 1991 killing 5 lakh and 1.4 lakh people respectively
Parametric insurance can get immediate pay-outs to countries hit by climate disasters − speeding along recovery and avoiding risks of deeper debt traps
Anna Carthy discusses the importance of understanding the history, politics and power dynamics that create vulnerability to loss and damage. Loss and damage is linked to colonial histories and to intersectional marginalisation, and it can be caused by both climate impacts and by climate action
In the contemporary discourse on Bangladesh, its cultural legacies have overtaken its identity as a land of six seasons or as a riverine country.