Elevated homesteads give hope to flood-hit communities in Bangladesh

Mongabay
Aug 2, 2022, 11:53 am188 pts
At 49, Hamid Ali has moved house at least eight times in his life. The reason each time has been the same: the erosion of the char lands, or river islands, in the Brahmaputra River as it flows through Bangladesh’s Kurigram district. In the early 1980s, the char of Astomir was completely submerged, forcing…

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