Bangladesh

A Bangladeshi Woman Can Tell You Why the Latest Round of Climate Talks Matter

Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson 08/11/2016

People like Bhokal, whose survival depends on the success...

Representative image. Credit: Reuters/Wolfgang Rattay

Regulating Rampal Power Project Could Mean Trouble Under the India-Bangladesh BIT

Prabhash Ranjan and Pushkar Anand 11/10/2016

If Bangladesh were to adopt regulatory measures against the...

Floating Toilets to the Rescue in Bangladesh

Pinaki Roy 02/10/2016

An innovative way of building toilets may help the...

Is it Ethical to Have Children in Times of Climate Change?

Travis N. Rieder 01/10/2016

World Bank and WHO predict that sea levels will...

China and India’s Race to Dam the Brahmaputra River Puts the Himalayas at Risk

Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman 01/10/2016

At the heart of the Himalayas, the ongoing conflict...

Bangladesh is Building a Dirty and Expensive Coal Plant Next to the World’s Largest Mangrove Forest

Shahzad Uddin 29/09/2016

Nearly 5 million tonnes of coal will soon be...

The region under threat is built on the world’s largest river delta, and water is everywhere. Widespread poverty, soft sediments and rapidly multiplying infrastructure including bridges like this one near the southern city of Khulna make the region exquisitely vulnerable to earthquakes. Credit: Kevin Krajick/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

A Giant Quake May Be Lurking Under Bangladesh and Beyond

Kevin Krajick 13/07/2016

Bangladesh and parts of North-Eastern India and Myanmar sit...