Seventeen years after Cyclone Aila tore through Gabura, most families who survived it are still there. Drawing on nearly two decades of fieldwork, this piece asks why people stay when the land is disappearing, and what that means for Bangladesh's climate policy.

Climate change is not just transforming Bangladesh’s landscape; it’s gradually reshaping where people live, work, and build their futures.

A record-breaking Tk 51,746 crore budget allocation for climate-relevant interventions, marking a 26 percent surge from the previous fiscal year, seems like an unmitigated triumph for a nation on the frontlines of environmental precarity, until one looks closely at where the money actually goes.

“We have no place to live in our homeland. The island where I was born and raised has abandoned us.

The young population in the coastal villages want to develop their skills and knowledge and advance their career.

The World Bank recently published a thorough analysis of various adverse impacts of human-induced climate change that are going to hit the coastal districts of Bangladesh.

We need to be taking the issue of human displacement due to climate change seriously.

In 2016, I led my band of misfits, aka Team “Little Wins,” to the Shanghai semi-finals of the Hult Prize. For those of you who may not know, the Hult prize is the world's biggest platform for social startups emerging from universities all across the world.