At least seven people, including four teenaged boys, were killed and two others injured as lightnings struck in Dinajpur town and Chirirbandar upazila yesterday afternoon.

Seven people including four teenagers died in separate lightning strikes in Dinajpur today.

Scores of firefighters backed by water-dropping aircraft battled a forest fire that broke out early Monday on the southern part of Greece's Evia island, less than two weeks after an inferno decimated its northern part.

At least 22 people were killed and rescue crews searched desperately Sunday amid shattered homes and tangled debris for dozens of people still missing after record-breaking rain sent floodwaters surging through Middle Tennessee.

The mighty Padma has rapidly been swelling over the last few days, flooding vast shoal areas of Pabna Sadar and Ishwardi upazilas.

Climate change activists climbed the outside of the headquarters of the City of London's government on Sunday as they began two weeks of protests focused on the capital's financial district.

Water in Padma river has been increasing rapidly in the last few days, flooding low lying areas and shoals of Pabna’s Sadar and Ishwardi upazilas.

Rescue crews continued Sunday to look for dozens of people missing in Tennessee after flooding from extraordinarily heavy rains left washed away homes and left at least 10 dead.

Hurricane Grace pummeled Mexico with torrential rain on Saturday, causing severe flooding and mudslides that killed at least eight people after becoming one of the most powerful storms in years to hit the country's Gulf coast.

After taking heavy pounding from different cyclonic storms such as Sidr, Aila, Fani, Amphan and most recently Yaas, Kuakata National Park by the sea beach lost three quarters of its land and forestry in little over a decade’s time. 

Thousands of people living in low-lying areas of different upazilas of Sirajganj have been marooned as the mighty Jamuna river has continued to swell.

Flooding in Faridpur has worsened as Padma river’s water levels at Goaland Point rose by 8centimeters in 24 hours till this morning.

Rain fell at the highest point on the Greenland ice sheet last week for the first time on record, another worrying sign of warming for the ice sheet already melting at an increasing rate, scientists said on Friday.

Children in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and India are among those most at risk of the impacts of climate change, threatening their health, education, and protection, according to a new Unicef report launched today.

Around 20,000 people have been marooned at five upazilas in Lalmonirhat as the low-lying and char areas of the Teesta river basin were flooded due to rain and onrush of water from the upstream in India today.

A tourist spot in Rajshahi city, called T-groyne, was closed to public yesterday as a precautionary measure after the Padma river swelled with water from upstream.

Tremors shook buildings late on Wednesday in the southern Haitian city of Les Cayes, a Reuters witness said, a few days after a devastating earthquake killed almost 2,200 people across the Caribbean nation and injured thousands more.

Fresh areas of the country are being inundated as two major rivers -- Padma and Jamuna -- continue to swell due to a combination of onrush of water from upstream and heavy downpours.

Vast croplands and many homesteads in low lying areas of 15 river basin villages in two upazilas of Nilphamari have been flooded due to sudden rise of water level in the Teesta river.

Although water level in Jamuna river has increased, Sirajganj Water Development Board ruled out any chances of flood in the district as it is still flowing below the danger mark.