Painting climate change in Bangladesh

Heat: Temperatures in Bangladesh are rising, especially in the usually cool winter months. Many older people say they do not now need blankets in winter. People complain that poultry are now dying in the heat Photograph: Pressud/Care

Winds: Bangladeshi farmers say there are now only three distinct seasons instead of the usual six. Spring is merging with winter, and summer with autumn. Rainfall increasingly comes in the usually dry months. This, they say, is causing havoc with farming Photograph: Pressud/Care

Cyclones: Bangladesh is experiencing more intense cyclones. In November 2007, Cyclone Sidr devastated 30% of the crops and made three million people homeless. Government meteorologists say that storms are on average 10% more powerful than 10 years ago Photograph: Pressud/Care

Floating gardens: Bangladesh urgently needs to adapt to climate change and communities are being taught hydroponic gardening. Beds of hyacinths, normally a weed clogging up rivers, can be made into floating vegetable gardens Photograph: Pressud/Care

Drought: Bangladesh is one of the wettest countries on Earth, but it is suffering increasingly from drought, largely caused by poor drainage. This is expected to get worse with climate change Photograph: Pressud/Care

Industrialisation: Bangladesh, with 130 million people, has some of the lowest emissions per capita in the world. It is eager to develop its industry with clean energy but urgently needs western technologies Photograph: Pressud/Care

Volcanoes: Communities are taught that climate is determined by natural processes, like volcanoes, as well as now by human actions Photograph: Pressud/Care

Floods: Bangladesh has annual floods, but these are expected to get catastrophically worse over the next 40 years as sea level rises. A forecast 30cm rise would inundate nearly one third of the country and force more than 25 million people to move Photograph: Pressud/Care