Climate Action Urged at Bosoti Seminar on Chattogram’s Environmental Future
Environmentalists, researchers, human rights advocates and civil society representatives on Friday called for coordinated and effective measures to address the growing impacts of climate change and tackle mounting environmental challenges facing Bangladesh’s port city of Chattogram. The call came during a seminar titled “Bosoti and Nature: Climate Crisis and the Future of Chattogram” organized by […]
35 years on, Chattogram coast still vulnerable after 1991 cyclone
Memories of the devastating cyclone of April 29, 1991 still haunt Bangladesh’s coastal communities as millions remain vulnerable due to fragile and incomplete embankments, more than three decades after the disaster killed about 138,000 people and left nearly 10 million destitute. Despite the passage of 35 years, many coastal areas of Chattogram lack durable flood […]