Straight: The winds, at more than 150 kilometres per hour, flattened almost all the homes, leaving bodies washed as far as 90 kilometres from the coast. Rice fields were destroyed, thousands died, many more were displaced, and, ever since, the soil has been saturated with salt.
The tsunami that devastated the region in 1988 was the trigger, Donatien Garnier wrote in 2010s Climate Refugees about the disaster that struck southwestern Bangladesh 25 years ago. Salt contamination has been increasing since...