The world is getting stormier, and the UN blames the increase in weather-related disasters on climate change. Bangladesh has been hit especially hard, but these days, cyclones there result in very few casualties. That’s thanks to a homegrown warning system.
Have Bangladeshis cracked the code to preventing storm deaths, and if so, is the strategy replicable elsewhere? The World’s Patrick Winn reports.
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