A city in India’s Rajasthan state has broken the country’s temperature records after registering 51C, the highest since records began, the weather office says. The new record in Phalodi in the desert state comes amid a heatwave across India.
Category: Climate
Cyclone Roanu weakens, hits coasts, swamps Bangladesh
Dhaka – Light to moderate and heavy downpour accompanied with gusty winds have forced people across Bangladesh to indoors as pheripheral winds of cyclone Roanu hit the coastal areas Bangladesh on Saturday morning. The Dhaka Met Office forecast the cyclone…
Cyclone Roanu moves slightly north-northeastward
The cyclonic storm ‘Roanu’ over West-central Bay and adjoining area moved slightly north-northeastward further over the same area (near lat 16.40 n & long 82.60e). It was centred at 06:00am about 1205 kms Southwest of Chittagong port, 1180 kms Southwest…
Ad-hoc body on Paris Accord suspends meet as change to agenda proposed
Bonn (Indrajit Bose) — The Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement (APA), a new body established by the twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the UNFCCC, convened its first session in the morning of…
AUST teacher sent to jail again
A court here on Monday sent Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology (AUST) teacher Mahfuzur Rashid Ferdous to jail after rejecting his bail petition in a case filed over sexual harassment of female students of the university. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate…
Brass tacks time for UN climate forum
Frontline climate diplomats will seek to translate good intentions into concrete action in Bonn Monday when they gather for the first time since hammering through a historic deal in December. “Our challenge is now to operationalize the Paris Agreement,” France…
Global warming behind growing lightning strikes: Experts
The incidents of lightning strikes in the country are gradually increasing due to rising temperature and climate variability caused by global warming, taking its heavy toll on human lives, experts said. According to reports published in different national dailies, nearly…
Botanists warn on threats to world’s plant kingdom
Britain’s Royal Botanic Gardens warned Tuesday about the threats facing the world’s plant kingdom in the first global report of its kind aimed at drawing attention to often-overlooked species. The “State of the World’s Plants” report was drawn up by…
Alberta officials say oil sands city saved from fire’s worst
Alberta premier’s declared Canada’s oil sands city saved and said a plan will be put together within two weeks so 88,000 residents forced to evacuate can return to their homes. At least two neighborhoods in Fort McMurray were scenes of…
From the front lines of climate change
Loren Legarda and Marcela Guerrero Manila/San Jose – On April 22, dignitaries representing no fewer than 175 parties signed the global climate change agreement concluded in Paris in December, setting a record for the adoption of an international accord. The…
Padma bridge height raised 1 metre as BD braces for climate disasters
Dhaka – Climate change will emerge as a great threat to the country’s development in the days to come, warned environmental experts at a discussion here on Saturday, unb news agency reported. “By the time, the height of the Padma…
Climate change adaptation must for food security: experts
Agriculture experts and environmentalists have put maximum emphasis on climate change adaptation, innovating and using effective technologies to keep cereal crop production increasing for ensuring food security. They also viewed that adaptation with adverse impacts of changing climate globally with…
Prolonged drought, Nor’wester affect mango production in Rajshahi
Mango production is likely to suffer a setback in Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj districts, famous for mango production, this year as immature mangoes are falling off trees due to unfavourable weather in the region for long. This year the production of…
In Chile, world’s driest desert slakes thirst with fog
Every morning at dawn, a thick mist known as “The Darkness” blows in from the Pacific to the edge of the Atacama Desert, the most arid place in the world. After tantalizing the northern Chilean desert with the promise of…
Brief rain spell along with squalls brings relief from heat in Bangladesh
Dhaka – After several days of hot spell, people heaved with sigh of relief as a nor’wester accomompanied with shower swept many parts of the country, including the capital city, on Sunday evening. Officials at the Meteorology Department said the…
Breaking free from fossil fuels
by Payal Parekh BERN – There has never been a better time to break free from fossil fuels. Record-breaking global temperatures, plummeting fossil-fuel prices, historic investments in renewable energy, and global pressure to honor climate pledges are all coming together…
Rare ice data collected by early ‘Citizen Scientists’ confirms warming
In 1442, 50 years before Columbus “sailed the ocean blue,” Shinto priests in Japan began keeping records of the annual freeze dates of a nearby lake. Along a Finnish river, starting in 1693, local merchants recorded the date the ice…
Yet another fire in Sundarbans
Yet another fire broke out in Tultala area of the Sundarbans under Chandpai Range in Sharankhola upazila on Wednesday. This was the 4th fire incident in the world’s largest mangrove forest and a Unesco world heritage site in four weeks.…
60 mn people worldwide hit by El Nino: UN
Some 60 million people worldwide need assistance due to havoc wreaked by the El Nino climate phenomenon, but a shortage of funding could threaten the delivery of life-saving aid, the UN warned Tuesday. “The numbers are truly alarming,” UN humanitarian…
The right time for climate action
by Simon Upton PARIS – During most of the roughly three decades since climate change became a global concern, governments optimistically assumed that a green transition would happen naturally over time, as rising fossil-fuel prices nudged consumers toward low-carbon alternatives.…
175 states sign landmark Paris deal on climate change
UN (AP/UNB) – Leaders from at least 175 countries were signing the Paris Agreement on climate change Friday as the landmark deal took a key step forward, potentially entering into force years ahead of schedule. U.S. Secretary of State John…
Italian chef Carlo Cracco draws attention to climate change threats
Rome, 19 April – Italian celebrity chef Carlo Cracco is working with the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development’s (IFAD) Recipes for Change campaign to highlight the threats small scale farmers in developing countries are facing as a result of…
Over 160 countries confirm to sign Paris deal Friday: UN
Dhaka, Apr 19 (UNB) – More than 160 countries have so far confirmed that they will sign the Paris Agreement on climate change on April 22, the first day that the agreement will be open for signature. “Next Friday will…
Heat wave intensifies across country
With the mercury maintaining its upward trend, scorching heat has intensified across the country, says news agency UNB.Met office said a heat wave has been sweeping across the country, including capital Dhaka, for the last three days.In the capital, people,…
NASA: Global warming now changing how Earth wobbles
Washington – Global warming is shifting the way the Earth wobbles on its polar axis, a new NASA study finds. Melting ice sheets, especially in Greenland, are changing the distribution of weight on Earth. And that has caused both the…
Sea levels set to ‘rise far more rapidly than expected’
New research factors in collapsing Antarctic ice sheet that could double the sea-level rise to two metres by 2100 if emissions are not cut Sea levels could rise far more rapidly than expected in coming decades, according to new research…
‘Biggest threats ‘ climate change, impacts fail to make headlines: IFAD
Rome – Even as 60 million people around the world face severe hunger because of El Niño and millions more because of climate change, top European and American media outlets are neglecting to cover the issues as a top news…
Mild hot spell over parts of Bangladesh to remain 3 more days
The mild hot spell scorching Rajshahi and Khulna divisions may continue for three more days, the Met Office has forecast. Weathermen said on Friday rainstorm may take place in Mymensingh, Khulna and some places in Sylhet in this period. The…
BASIC Ministers outline priorities for Paris Agreement
Kuala Lumpur (Hilary Chiew) – At their first meeting since the Paris climate summit, Ministers and representatives from Brazil, South Africa, India and China (BASIC) reiterated the importance of raising pre-2020 actions in building trust amongst the Parties to pave…
Papua New Guinea 1st to have climate plan under Paris deal
By Eliza Northrop Washington DC – On March 29, Papua New Guinea became the first country to formally submit the final version of its national climate action plan (called a “Nationally Determined Contribution,” or NDC) under the Paris Agreement. The…