‘We faced so many cyclones’: how people in Bangladesh are rebuilding after climate catastrophe

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The cyclones that repeatedly hit his village deep in Bangladesh's south did not just bring waist-high water that washed everything away, they forced Shayma Kanta Mistri to make a choice about his future.

The salt waters that had surged in from the nearby Bay of Bengal ruined his paddy fields, which were already providing only a tenuous living that had to be supplemented by seasonal labouring for other farmers. Mistri needed to adapt or leave.

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