Nor’wester lashed Pabna, Bhola, Kushtia and Natore districts on Thursday night, leaving an unspecified number of people injured and dwelling houses and standing crops damaged. In Pabna, the storm swept over Sadar and Ishwardi upazilas injuring 30 people and damaging…
River otters, lichen on trees and coral in oceans are not just beautiful to look at, they tell us something important about the environment around them.
The 8th International Conference on Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change concluded in Kathmandu on Wednesday with a declaration on financing local adaptation efforts and a call for reaching all the climate funds to the local communities.
Speakers at a meeting yesterday emphasised the need for bringing the climate change issues in the mainstream of the media much more to face their impacts to the people. Addressing the yearly evaluation meeting of Network on Climate Change, Bangladesh…
The temperature dropped with a spate of cool breeze in capital Dhaka on Friday afternoon after soaring to a five-decade high the day before. Sporadic rain was reported from some districts at the same time bringing relief from the scorching…
Temperature in capital Dhaka on Thursday soared to a sizzling 40.2 degrees Celsius, the highest in five decades, the Met Office said. Its forecast officer Abul Kalam Mollick told bdnews24.com: “This is the second highest temperature in Dhaka. The previous…
The effects of climate change will endanger the present world, particularly developing countries like Bangladesh, according to the organizers of a validation workshop on the Climate Fiscal Framework (CFF) held in the city on Wednesday. The workshop was organised jointly…
For the first time in its history, the Environment Agency has assessed the state of all of its flood defences in England following the winter’s storms.
Last year, the Quebec Skeptics Society threw down the gauntlet: “If anthropogenic global warming is as strong as scientists claim, then why do they need supercomputers to demonstrate it?”
Dr. Rajiv Shah (L), Administrator for U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have a conversation at a launch event for a new organization, the U.S. Global Development Lab, on April 3, 2014…
Quito – Villagers and experts warily eyed an Ecuador volcano Saturday that spewed a 10-kilometer (six-mile) high column of ash a day earlier in a spectacular eruption.
Berlin — After concluding that global warming almost certainly is man-made and poses a grave threat to humanity, the U.N.-sponsored expert panel on climate change is moving on to the next phase: what to do about it.
Modern human civilization is fragile — fragile to crop failures, droughts, and extreme weather. We are extremely susceptible to energy and water shortages.
Three months ago, it snowed in Cairo, Egypt for the first time in 112 years.
The costs of inaction on climate change will be “catastrophic”, according to US Secretary of State John Kerry. Mr Kerry was responding to a major report by the UN which described the impacts of global warming as “severe, pervasive and…
The impacts of global warming are likely to be “severe, pervasive and irreversible”, a major report by the UN has warned. Scientists and officials meeting in Japan say the document is the most comprehensive assessment to date of the impacts…
Negotiators worked through the night here in Yokohama in an effort to complete their review of a key report on the impacts of climate change.
There’s no mystery to the climate change crisis, as three news articles published this week make clear. Higher oceans threaten disaster, but greenhouse gas emissions continue, because they are lucrative.
When a powerful storm destroyed her riverside home in 2009, Jahanara Khatun lost more than the modest roof over her head. In the aftermath, her husband died and she became so destitute that she sold her son and daughter into…
Senior scientists and government officials are meeting in Japan to agree a critical report on the impact of global warming.
Wetter winters in the future could increase agricultural pollution in Britain’s rivers, say scientists.
Washington — The Obama administration hopes to fight global warming with the geeky power of numbers, maps and even gaming-type simulations.
The impact of climate change will alter the nature of how rain and snow falls and by the end of 21st century the number of days without rain could go up by 30 days a year in some parts of…
Cox’s Bazar city is now full of climate displaced peoples from its different vulnerable upazilas and other districts of the country. They are living here are there and their rights of housing, lands and property totally absent. As a result…
Oslo – A slowdown in the pace of global warming so far this century is likely to be only a pause in a longer-term trend of rising temperatures, the science academies of the United States and Britain said on Thursday.
From: Jan Steffen Despite international agreements on climate protection and political declarations of intent, global greenhouse gas emissions have not decreased. On the contrary, they continue to increase. With a growing world population and significant industrialization in emerging markets such…
Making it mandatory for corporates to spend 2 per cent of profits on CSR will not benefit the society if they continue to adopt corrupt practices that are damaging to the environment, Planning Commission member Arun Maira said today.
Experts at a divisional seminar have stressed for innovation and adoption of the community-based mechanisms, ways, strategies and technologies to adapt with changing climate in vulnerable areas including inland chars.
Dhaka – Rights activists at a discussion on Monday urged the civil society members of the South Asian countries to get united to make the governments of Saarc nations to focus more on climate change issues. They said if the…
Jakarta – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned Indonesians on Sunday that climate change could threaten their “entire way of life” as he called for all nations to do more to stop global warming.