Over the past five decades, the Jamuna, Ganges and Padma rivers have together eroded 158,353 hectares of land – roughly 1,585 square kilometres, nearly five times the combined area of Dhaka’s two city corporations. Newly-formed chars have returned about 433 square kilometres, yet the net loss stands at approximately 1,153 square kilometres, still close to four times the capital’s size.…
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