The city that never cools: Dhaka's faster warming and lethal nights

Dhaka, one of the world’s fastest-growing megacities, is heating up at an alarming and accelerating pace, transforming from a bustling metropolis into a pressure cooker of rising temperatures, vanishing greenery, and dangerous nighttime heat. New data reveals that between 1980 and 2023, Dhaka’s maximum temperature rose by 1.4°C, significantly outpacing the national average increase of 1.1°C. But the real danger lies in what scientists call the “heat index” - how hot it actually feels to the human body. In Dhaka, that index climbed 2.9°C (7.7%) over the same period, at a steady rate of 0.07°C per year, according to a new report of the World Bank Group – “An Unsustainable Life The Impact of Heat on Health and the Economy...