UN: Climate change threatens 19 million Bangladesh children

FILE - In this June 4, 2018, file photo, Bangladeshi children sit on garbage piled up by the river Buriganga in Hazaribagh area in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A new report by the United Nations children’s agency says the lives and futures of more than 19 million Bangladeshi children are at risk from colossal impacts of devastating floods, cyclones and other environmental disasters linked to climate change. The UNICEF report released Friday, April 5, 2019 said the tally includes Rohingya refugee children from Myanmar who are living in squalid camps in southern Bangladesh.( AP Photo/A.M. Ahad, File)

FILE - In this June 1, 2016, file photo, a Bangladeshi boy walks out of a toilet at a slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A new report by the United Nations children’s agency on Friday, April 5, 2019, says the lives and futures of more than 19 million Bangladeshi children are at risk from colossal impacts of devastating floods, cyclones and other environmental disasters linked to climate change. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad, File)