Cox’s Bazar
has long endured the monsoon, but recent years have unleashed a more violent
version. Short, intense downpours now batter the district, unleashing
landslides, flash floods, and persistent waterlogging that regularly cripple
communities.
Experts
believe that alongside the effects of climate change, hill cutting,
deforestation, the filling of canals and drains, and unplanned urbanization are
making the monsoon more terrifying than ever before.
At least 33
unions across nine upazilas of...
