Bangladesh registers hottest April on record

By Agence France-Presse

May 02, 2024 12:10 am

DHAKA: Bangladesh's weather bureau said on Wednesday that last month was the hottest April on record, with the South Asian nation and much of the region still enduring a suffocating heat wave.

Extensive scientific research has found that climate change is causing heat waves to become longer, more frequent and more intense.

FILL THEM UP Students refill their water bottles to hydrate on a hot summer day at a school in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka on April 28, 2024. AFP PHOTO

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