GreenWatch Newsdesk Dhaka – Rainfall is being experiernces across Bangladesh since thursday night under the influence of the new cyclone that has formed over the Bay of Bengal. Weather experts say this cyclone may cause as heavy as 100millimetres (8…
Dhaka – A mobile team, led by Dhaka Noth City Corporation (DNCC) Chief Engineer Brig Gen Syeed Anwarul Islam, demolished Bag-e-Monem at 2:30pm on Thursday, reports agencies. Thursday’s demolition came one week after the Parliamentary Standing Committee to the Ministry…
Dhaka – The entry of the Paris Climate Change Agreement into force from Friday should spur states to be more ambitious in their commitment to tackling global warming, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said on…
Dhaka: The depression over the southeast bay moved northwestward over the west-central bay and adjoining area. It was centring at 3pm on Thursday about 1130 kms southwest of Chittagong port, 1070 kms southwest of Cox’s Bazar port, 1055 kms southwest…
One of Australia’s dirtiest power plants will be shuttered, its owner said Thursday, in a move hailed by environmentalists. After decades of belching pollution, the Hazelwood brown coal-fired power station in Victoria state’s Latrobe Valley will close in March after…
S. Gopikrishna Warrier Memories of the ruinous floods in Chennai last year, partially blamed on climate change, have prompted many residents to raise the height of their houses to avoid getting inundated If you cannot beat the flood, rise above…
Bangladesh must seek a legally binding treaty to ensure compensation for countries vulnerable to the impacts of climate change at the upcoming Paris Climate Summit, said development activists at a discussion here today. They said the Conference of Parties (COP21),…
Shaila Mahmud With the Paris Agreement coming into full effect just before the next meeting of the Conference of Parties’ (COP) is all set to kick off has opened the floor for implementation talk in this year’s UN Climate Conference…
Over 8,500 children die every year in Bangladesh from diseases caused by household air pollution (HAP) and 89 percent of households use solid fuels – mostly wood, agricultural waste and cow dung – for cooking and space heating.
A thick blanket of toxic smog covered parts of New Delhi on Monday after millions of revelers let off firecrackers to celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights.The System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) said that…
New Delhi (AP/UNB) — A new report from UNICEF says most of the 2 billion children in the world who are breathing toxic air live in northern India and neighboring countries, risking serious health effects including damage to their lungs,…
Dhaka – Nepal’s army says it has finished draining a dangerous glacial lake near Mount Everest to a safe level, reports BBC. The Imja glacial lake, at nearly 5,000m (16,400ft) high, was in danger of flooding downstream settlements, trekking trails…
Electric carmaker Tesla has diversified into the alternative energy business, solar roofs for environmentally friendly homes. “Global warming is a serious crisis and we need to do something about that,” company founder Elon Musk said during a news conference at…
Dhaka: Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sayeed Khokon on Saturday said around 2,506 listed street hawkers of Gulistan area will be rehabilitated in a vacant place adjacent to Mohanagar Natya Mancha. “Illegal structures, shops and street hawkers will be…
by Raquib Siddiqi The global wild tiger population has increased for the first time since conservation efforts began in the 1960s. But the number of Royal Bengal Tiger (RBT)—the national animal and major tourist attraction, has nose-dived in Bangladesh. The…
San Francisco (AP/UNB) — A blue whale that washed ashore near San Francisco had multiple skull fractures that were consistent with a collision with a ship.
Feeding the country’s growing population in a rapidly warming world will not be possible with modern intensive agriculture that relies on cutting down more forests to plant crops. The only way to produce enough crops and mitigate climate change at…
Environment and Forests Minister Anwar Hossain Manju has said the Royal Bengal Tigers of the Sundarbans are back from their foreign tour.In 2015, the minister, while speaking at an International Tiger Conservation Day meet, had said the depleting number of…
Nearly three-fifths of all animals with a backbone—fish, birds, amphibians, reptiles and mammals—have been wiped out since 1970 by human appetites and activity, according to a grim study released Thursday. On current trends, stocks of global wildlife could plunge two-thirds…
Delhi (Indrajit Bose) — The Green Climate Fund (GCF) at its 14th meeting in Songdo, South Korea, in a decision adopted by the Board to facilitate access to environmentally sound technologies (ESTs), encouraged developing countries to submit proposals in this…
Dhaka – Drizzles triggered by the cyclonic storm ‘Kyant’ disrupted the city life on Thursday morning. The rainfall started early hours and is continuing till the filing of this report at 10:30pm. Many streets in the city turned into shallow…
Dhaka: Maritime ports of Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been asked by the met office to keep hoisted distant warning signal No 2 as cyclonic storm ‘Kyant’ over west-central bay and adjoining area has moved westwards over the…
Berlin (AP/UNB) — The U.N. refugee agency said Wednesday that at least 3,800 migrants have died in the Mediterranean Sea so far this year in an attempt to reach Europe,, making 2016 the deadliest year on record. The Geneva-based agency…
Several environmental organisations including Barisal city unit of Sachetan Nagorik Committee (Sanak) and Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) on Wednesday formed a human chain demanding compensation to tackle climate change, not loan.
Dutch inventors have unveiled a large outside air vacuum cleaner they say is capable of filtering large quantities of toxic particles from the atmosphere.The purifier can clean about 800,000 cubic metres of air per hour, tech start-up Envinity Group said.”A…
More corals are dying and others are succumbing to disease and predators after the worst-ever bleaching on Australia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef, scientists said Wednesday. A swathe of corals bleached in the northern third of the 2,300-kilometre (1,429-mile) long biodiverse…
By Cassandra Vinograd and Hind Hassan About 500 people have been arriving each day at the Debaga refugee camp in northern Iraq, with aid organizations bracing for an influx as the Mosul offensive proceeds. Some 11,000 refugees arrived at the…
Migration governance cannot be only about closing borders and keeping people out, said two United Nations human rights experts calling on UN member states to develop long-term strategies and policies to facilitate rather than restrict migration.
Dhaka – A two-day international conference of 13th Regional Steering Committee meeting of environmental group Mangroves For the Future (MFF) began at Sayeman Beach Resort in Cox’s Bazar on Tuesday, UNB news agency reported. Environment and Forests Ministry and Mangroves…
ZEIST, Netherlands (BSS/AFP) – A majestic turquoise-and-gold tail splashes the surface of a public pool. Strange, beautiful creatures frolic in the water, occasionally peeking out from their masks and snorkels. Half-woman, half-fish. Since Disney’s Princess Ariel first hit the big…