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Bangladesh Adapts to Rising Sea Levels | PBS News Hour

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Few countries in the world are considered more vulnerable to the impact of rising sea levels and climate change than Bangladesh, a nation of 175 million people squeezed into a landmass the size of Iowa. In partnership with the Pulitzer Center, News Hour‘s Fred de Sam Lazaro traveled to Bangladesh to look at efforts to build resilience in the face of the escalating consequences.

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