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    The priorities of the government of Bangladesh have gone into fighting disasters, most of them hydrological in nature. Sustaining rivers and their ecosystem has...
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    As The Earth Warms and Glaciers Melt, The Risk of Glacial Lake Outburst Floods Grows

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