FERN Explains How Climate Adaptation in Bangladesh Went Bad

In “When climate adaptation goes wrong,” published with The Guardian, Stephen Rober Miller details how in Bangladesh, rising waters ruined farmers’ rice fields, so they switched to shrimp — and that’s when troubles mounted.

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