On the frontline of the climate emergency, Bangladesh adapts
by Sarah Marsh in Jessore, Bangladesh from on (#4XKEW)
Farmers in delta lowlands are discovering innovative answers to floods and storms
In the scorching farmlands of south-west Bangladesh, a single coconut tree stands as a barometer of climate change.
Dulal Mondal, 70, a farmer, points halfway up the tree about two feet off the ground to indicate where the waters came the last time the area flooded.
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