内容摘要：Shaggy poses for a portrait on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, in New York. (Photo by Matt Licari/Invision/AP)

Shaggy poses for a portrait on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, in New York. (Photo by Matt Licari/Invision/AP)

Some 150,000 people now live in Mongla — many of whom moved from villages near the Sundarbans forest, the world’s largest mangrove forest which straddles the border of Bangladesh and India and harbors endangered Bengal tigers.Being forced by climate change to move, within borders or beyond, is a growing reality expected to accelerate in the decades ahead. Over the next 30 years, 143 million people are likely to be uprooted by rising seas, drought, searing temperatures and other climate catastrophes, according to an

published last month by the United Nations., already one of the hardest-hit continents, are scrambling to confront major changes taking place.Climate scientists like Saleemul Huq, director of the Dhaka-based International Centre for Climate Change and Development, are branding Mongla as a climate-resilient town for the refugees.

An aerial view shows Mongla town in Bangladesh, March 3, 2022. This town was once vulnerable to floods and river erosion, but now it has become more resilient with improved infrastructure against high tides and erosion. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)An aerial view shows Mongla town in Bangladesh, March 3, 2022. This town was once vulnerable to floods and river erosion, but now it has become more resilient with improved infrastructure against high tides and erosion. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

“When it comes to adaptation, Mongla is a success story. Changes are coming there as an example of how climate refugees could transform their life through new opportunities, through a new approach of adaptation,” said Huq, whose institute conducts environmental research.

“Mongla has offered new opportunities to them. With its seaport and an export processing zone and climate-resilient infrastructure, Mongla town has become a different story,” Huq said.Her fourth nod is in the song written for visual media category, for “Better Place,” a

for “Trolls: Band Together.”“People really gravitate toward her energy, as well as obviously her talent. That just goes without saying,” said Julia Michaels, another hit songwriter, artist and collaborator on “Short n’ Sweet,” of Allen.

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