Some areas in northern China are likely to see heavy snow or blizzard, as the country’s national observatory issued a blue alert on Sunday. Some parts of Inner Mongolia, Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei are forecast to embrace heavy snow between…
Category: Environment
Filipina named UAE’s best nanny
Dubai: A Filipina has been judged as the UAE’s best nanny, at the first such award held in the country on Saturday. “This is really an unexpected blessing,” said Lorina Bunio, 29, who had swapped her everyday casual clothes for…
NCC polls: 5 aspirants collect nomination forms
Five mayoral aspirants have so far bought nomination papers to contest the Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) polls slated for December 22.
Climate talks set 2018 deadline to agree rules
Nearly 200 nations agreed around midnight on Friday to work out the rules for a landmark 2015 global deal to tackle climate change within two years in a new sign of international support for a pact opposed by US President-elect…
Four nations map course to carbon-free economies
When it comes to purging fossil fuels from the global economy by mid-century—our only hope of staving off catastrophic climate change—it turns out that you can’t get there from here without a good map. That’s the thinking behind detailed, long-term…
‘Today is one of the heaviest days of my life’
By Cathy Breen I’ve written often about our Iraqi refugee friend and his oldest son from Baghdad. I will call them Mohammed and Ahmed. They made the torturous flight last year from Baghdad to Kurdistan and then across Turkey. They…
Marrakech proclamation for action on climate and sustainable dev
Marrakech (Hilary Chiew) – Parties at the climate talks on 17 Nov supported the call issued by the President of the Conference of Parties to the UNFCCC entitled the ‘Marrakech Action Proclamation for our Climate and Sustainable Development’. The President…
Urgent pleas to Trump at UN climate talks
The leader of Fiji, whose nation is being resculpted by rising seas, pleaded Friday with Donald Trump to join the fight against global warming. Invoking World War II, Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama urged the United States to play its part…
Anti-immigration Senator Jeff Sessions tipped as Attorney Gen
By Keegan Hamilton President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions to be his attorney general, according to multiple reports citing sources close to Trump’s White House transition team. A conservative Republican and an early supporter of Trump’s bid…
‘Save us’ from global warming, US urged
The next head of the UN global climate talks has appealed for the US to “save” Pacific islands from the impacts of global warming. Fijian Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama said that the islands needed the US now as much as…
Bangladesh set to launch survey of marine resources
Dhaka – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasinsa is expected to commission a state of art survey vessel tomorrow as Bangladesh is set to launch next month an extensive study on marine aquaculture in extended territorial waters.
Four nations map course to carbon-free economies
Marrakech (BSS/AFP) – When it comes to purging fossil fuels from the global economy by mid-century — our only hope of staving off catastrophic climate change — it turns out that you can’t get there from here without a good…
Camera installation in Sundarbans to begin soon
Bagerhat – The installation of cameras in the Sundarbans will begin soon to conduct an integrated tiger census using camera trapping method to access tiger population in the mangrove forest. “In the first phase, 400 cameras will be installed in…
Trump surrogate on Muslim registry
On the eve of Donald Trump’s planned meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — his first in-person conversation with a world leader and U.S. ally as President-elect — one of Trump’s surrogates repeatedly cited World War II Japanese internment…
Donald Trump team ‘discussing plans for Muslim registration system’
Donald Trump’s policy advisers are discussing plans to establish a registry for Muslim immigrants in the US, a man believed to be a key member of the President-elect’s transition team has revealed.Kris Kobach, the secretary of state for Kansas, said…
Hundreds of Rohingya try to escape Myanmar crackdown
Hundreds of people from the Rohingya minority in Myanmar are trying to escape a military crackdown by crossing the border into Bangladesh.The people attempting to flee include children.Witnesses and Bangladeshi officials say that some people trying to flee have been…
COP22 Call to fulfil $100 billion a year promise for climate actions
Marrakech (Hilary Chiew and Zhenyan Zhu) – Developed country Parties’ fulfilment of the provision of USD 100 billion annually by 2020 was stressed by all the guests of honour at the opening of the traditional high-level segment of the two-week…
Two tigers killed or trafficked every week: report
Hanoi – Two tigers are killed or illegally trafficked every week, according to fresh analysis published Wednesday that warned of the “disastrous impact” on the 4,000 big cats left in the wild. The latest estimate comes as experts and dignitaries,…
Manipur villagers stand against Pabram Dam on Barak River
The Morung Express Imphal – The JAC against 190 MW Pabram Dam (JAC on Pabram Dam) and the Centre for Research and Advocacy, Manipur (CRAM) organized community meetings and awareness on protection of land, natural resources in Langpram, Khunphung and…
Fight climate change together, make world safer: PM Hasina
Marrakech – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged global leaders to fight together the perilous threats of climate change and share the burdens equally for fulfilling the promises to make the world a safer place for the future generation. “Let’s…
Rampal plant not to harm Sundarbans, insist officials
Bagerhat – Claiming that ultra supercritical technologies will be used in the proposed coal-based Rampal Power Plant, officials on Tuesday alleged that a quarter is spreading false and misleading information about the power project. So-called environmental activists are raising questions…
Scaling the odds at Vietnam’s pangolin rehab
Pangolin Mi Bo has seen better days. He arrived at a rescue centre in Vietnam missing a paw after it was cut off in a snare trap. The rest of his body is marked by red lacerations, and he will…
Trump’s presidency: Survival or demise for the Paris Agreement?
Shaila Mahmud The second week of November has been no less than a ‘roller coaster ride’ for global climate change action. The month kicked off on a high note with Paris Agreement coming into force on last Friday, just two…
US envoy says climate deal is bigger than any one head of state
By Matt McGrath, BBC Environment correspondent, Marrakech The Paris climate agreement will survive a Trump presidency says the US special envoy on climate change Dr Jonathan Pershing. He was speaking before the arrival of ministers and some heads of state…
Tremor shakes city
Dhaka – A light tremor measuring 4.6 in the Richter scale shook the city on Tuesday at 8:10am The epicenter of the tremor was in Sylhet, the Met Officesaid. There was no immediate report of any damage or casualty.
Trump: ‘We are getting them out of our country’
Donald Trump made the first major appointments of his administration on Sunday, selecting Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus as his White House chief of staff, the top employee in the administration. He also named Stephen Bannon, his campaign CEO…
Heavy pollution shuts schools in Iran’s capital
Tehran officials shut schools on Monday as the first of the winter season’s heavy pollution hit the Iranian capital. A blanket of choking brown-white smog descended on the city on Sunday, blocking out the view of the mountains that line…
Unease over ‘Marrakech Call for Action’ doc on anvil
Marrakech (Hilary Chiew) – Unease has emerged among some developing countries over the content of a confidential document being prepared behind closed doors by the Moroccan Presidency of the UN climate talks billed the ‘Marrakech Call for Action’. News about…
PM off to Morocco to attend COP-22
Dhaka – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka for Morocco on Monday morning on a three-day official visit to attend two high-level segments of the Conference of the Parties (COP-22).
Trump ‘cannot turn his back’ on Paris Deal: World climate ministers
Delegates arriving for COP22 climate talks in Marrakesh ‘stunned’ that avowed climate-change denier is set to enter the White House The world expects the United States to uphold commitments under the landmark Paris climate treaty despite Donald Trump’s vow to…