On the Bay of Bengal's northern shore, a nation that has contributed almost nothing to the warming of the planet now stands in the path of one of its most consequential expressions. The 2026-27 El Niño — projected with 75% likelihood to surpass every recorded event since 1950 — threatens Bangladesh not with a single disaster but with many arriving at once: drought and flood, hunger and disease, coastal erosion and energy failure, all compounding each other before any one can be addressed. It is a story as old as human civilization and as urgent as tomorrow's harvest — those least responsible f
Super El Niño threatens to compound Bangladesh's cascading climate crisis
Vulnerable populations face income loss, food insecurity, malnutrition, disease outbreaks (dengue hospitalisations exceeded 42,000 by September 2026), and displacement from eroding coasts and riverbanks, with women and informal workers disproportionately affected.