30 October, 2007 - Published 16:40 GMT
Outlook reporter in Bangladesh
Do you believe that our climate is changing? If you’ve noticed weather patterns where you live altering what do you put it down to - the effect of our behaviour on the planet, or just nature taking its course?
Outlook’s reporter Siobhann Tighe has travelled to Bangladesh to see how the people are coping with heavy rainfall, flooding and soil erosion. Experts studying climate change predict that if sea levels rise by just one metre a great swathe of southern Bangladesh, reaching almost to the capital city of Dhaka, will be underwater.
Siobhann travelled around Bangladesh for the World Service's TAKING THE TEMPERATURE season.
Siobhann is travelling in a boat along the main rivers of Bangladesh to see for herself the impact of too much water on a nation which is so reliant on its rivers for their economy and culture. The cruiser has been chartered by the 大象传媒 to explore how Bangladeshis are coping with flooding, and all its life-threatening consequences.
A Bangladeshi teacher has been so concerned about the effect of soil erosion that she’s composed a special song about it. In her delicate voice she prays that the river won’t engulf her family home and make them all homeless. Siobhann's also spoken to a man, who manages one of the many jetties or docking stations along the river Meghna, who says every monsoon season is frightening because of the risk of flooding. Local fishermen have also been affected:
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