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Backs to the wall, brick workers absorb the sting of a driving rain on the Turag River west of Dhaka.

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The Coming Storm

The people of Bangladesh have much to teach us about how a crowded planet can best adapt to rising sea levels. For them, that future is now.

This story appears in the May 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine.
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