FROM THE FIELD
Climate change - It's been three months since Cyclone Aila hit Bangladesh and eastern India. As we continue our emergency response, the BBC visit affected communites, reports Ben Beaumont. A very quick blog to let people know that the BBC have spent the last week visiting communities affected by Cyclone Aila. They've actually visited the same community, Gabura, that I went to last November. I remember thinking back then that this was a place right on the edge because of climate change. Hand-built mud embankments were all that stood between their homes and farmland and the rising sea. High tides and storm surges breached the embankments frequently, flooding their land with salt water, and ruining homes and rice paddies. And then Cyclone Aila hit in May, and the storm surges that came with it wrought utter devastation. The people here are still recovering, still rebuilding, and inevitably talk has turned to how they can adapt in the future. Climate change means the rising sea will continue to destroy lives here, unless rich governments help to pay for vital adaptation measures.![Sufia, 35, in front of her newly raised home [Photo credit: Dan Chung]](http://www.oxfam.org.uk/generationwhy/cgi/process_comp/photos/2009/09/sufia_raisedhome.jpg)
[ Any views expressed in this article are those of the writer and not of Reuters. ]
[ Any views expressed in this article are those of the writer and not of Reuters. ]
