Farmers bear extra time, labour and transport costs after erosion makes road unusable

Women across coastal Shyamnagar and the chars of Kurigram spend their days fishing, farming, tending animals, and making goods to sell. Yet unpaid care work, distant water sources, unsafe markets, and repeated climate shocks keep that labour from ever becoming steady income or savings.

Ensure long-term support for erosion victims

Over the past five decades, the Jamuna and Ganges rivers, along with the Padma formed by their confluence, have eroded about 1,585sqkm of land, according to government data. That is more than five times the combined area of Dhaka’s two city corporations.

WDB dumps geo-bags to contain erosion as locals allege authorities ignored earlier warning signs

Schools, homes are at risk of being washed away in Barishal’s Kedarpur union

Directs authorities to expand use of vetiver grass to protect rivers, canals and transport infrastructure

Sakhina Begum had seen better days once upon a time. It was another life when she was part of a well-to-do family, and villagers called her Mondol-er bou. Now she has grown old and frail, and her husband has lost all his land to the ravenous Brahmaputra.

In northern Bangladesh, river erosion is washing away more than homes and farmland

Nine villages affected as the Padma and Arial Khan wash away homes, roads and farmland, forcing families to relocate

At least 16 villages in Kazipur affected as rising river levels continue to consume homes, cropland and roads

Government must move beyond symbolic enforcement to protect the riverbeds

Slow-onset shocks like river erosion are now a major driver of full household migration in coastal areas, with 27.41 percent of complete relocations linked to erosion, according to new research by the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS).

People in erosion-prone districts suffer mental health consequences of riverbank erosion.

Water has already entered low-lying areas, prompting concerns over possible flooding

The gender wage gap persists across industries.

Environmental damage from unplanned development, encroachment must stop

At least 50 families residing in Char Poulee village under Tangail Sadar upazila are passing sleepless nights as the Jamuna river’s erosion worsened this monsoon.

Nearly a thousand families on the bank of the Padma river in Daulatdia union under Rajbari’s Goalanda upazila are passing days in fear of erosion.

Displacement fear looms over thousands living in 5 unions of Khulna’s Koyra