Climate change means that people in Bangladesh are facing disruption in their lives due to heavier monsoons and rising tides.

Climatologists warn that the heating up of the earth’s atmosphere is making the country one of the most vulnerable to rising sea levels, coping with ever more devastating floods much more often. This means that populations have to adapt to fast changing seasons and freak weather conditions. But most of those affected on the front line, live without electricity or televisions, so have never even heard of ‘climate change’.

Many of the villages affected in Hatibandha, a remote region in northern Bangladesh, are located on silt islands, known locally as chars, which are created in a vast delta by the swell of rivers, monsoon rains and sand carpeting. The lives of the char people are bound up with the flow of rivers such as the Teesta, as the islands undergo constant erosion and reformation.

More than two million of some of Bangladesh’s poorest people are isolated in this ever changing terrain, living with the frequent risk of flooding.

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