Nasa recently took an open-science initiative called the Earth Information System (EIS) Freshwater, and among its various components (wildfire hydrology, risk of flooding, water security, AI application), it is looking into the flooding impact of climate change and human activities in the Bengal delta, which includes the country of Bangladesh.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the world's longest river cruise on January 13, in Varanasi, which Union Ports, Shipping and Waterways Minister Sarbananda Sonwal said will usher in a new era of river cruise tourism in India.
Perilously close to rising sea levels and vulnerable to floods, erosion, and cyclones, Bangladesh is one of the top recipients of development aid earmarked for adaptation to climate change.
Padma River: Here was a river that was larger than life, larger than anything I had encountered before. Flowing gloriously and indifferently, it presented a mythic scale against which I felt terribly puny.