The rice paddies are now fish ponds

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This feature has been published in De Groene Amsterdammer – June 2025.

Bangladesh – Without countermeasures, nearly one-fifth of Bangladesh will be submerged and 25 million people risk losing their homes. How are 23-year-old Shaheen and his family coping with this? ‘The groundwater has turned saline, we now drink rainwater.’

Images: Nicole Franken – Text: Yvonne Dudock

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