The largest slum area in Dhaka is Korail, a densely-packed maze of tin structures and narrow alleys. According to the UN ...

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has approved $51.4 million to finance a project in Bangladesh, aiming to build climate resilience, strengthen food security, and promote ...

Bangladesh is ranked seventh among the most climate vulnerable countries in the world, but its contribution to global warming is negligible. It contributes less than half of 1 percent of all ...

Natural disasters are growing in severity, but wealthy countries still haven't delivered on their $100 billion promise of climate aid to poor nations, including Bangladesh. Monisha Ravisetti was a ...

Fifty years ago, Bangladesh won independence from Pakistan amid devastating climate disaster. The year before, in 1970, the Bhola cyclone had killed up to half a million people. The human toll of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

As Bangladesh is located at the end of the drainage basin of mighty Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna River systems, it is prone to climate-related disasters. The recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel ...

Bangladesh’s 2026 general election will be consequential, but lasting stability depends on whether the political system can ...