Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC) today forecast that water levels of Teesta, Dharla and Dudhkumar rivers in the country’s northern region may rise rapidly in the next 72 hours resulting in situations triggering flash floods at some places there.

Beyond the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change will emerge as an even bigger challenge for newsroom leaders to cover well, across various domains ranging from environmental to political impact, said World Editors Forum (WEF) president Warren Fernandez.

​​​​​​​The Char Kharuya flood shelter on the Dharla shoal of Mughalhat union in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila is under threat due to river erosion and only dumping of geo-bags on an emergency basis could protect it. But the Water Development Board’s executive engineer has said they do not have the funds to do so at the moment.

​​​​​​​Four people were found dead as a huge fire raged for a second day in Cyprus, razing tracts of forest in a blaze one official called the worst on record.

Forty-one mm of rainfall has been recorded in Dhaka since this morning, Abdul Mannan, a meteorologist from the Bangladesh Meteorological Department, told The Daily Star this afternoon.

Hundreds of houses along the Teesta river bank in Lalmonirhat have been flooded as the water level rose by 5 cm in the last 12 hours due to incessant rain and water from the upstream.

Low-lying areas along the river banks of Lalmonirhat and Kurigram were inundated as river water increased due to incessant rainfall and onrush of upstream water.

The potent greenhouse gas methane is spewing out of natural gas infrastructure across the European Union because of leaks and venting, video footage made available to Reuters shows.

Britain's lack of policies to meet net zero emissions by 2050 is jeopardising its chance of meeting the target, the country's climate advisers said in a progress report on Thursday.

USAID has launched a $17 million clean energy project called Bangladesh Advancing Development Growth through Energy (BADGE), aimed at expanding Bangladesh’s access to affordable clean energy and support clean energy entrepreneurship.

The government of Bangladesh has announced it will host the first ever virtual V20 Climate Vulnerables Finance Summit on July 8.

British environmentalist David Attenborough told Group of Seven leaders on Sunday that tackling climate change was now as much a political challenge as it was a scientific one.

The maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to hoist local cautionary signal no-3 as a low pressure has formed over northwest Bay and adjoining coastal areas of Bangladesh.

Ghana aimed to plant at least 5 million trees in a single day on Friday to help regrow the country's lost forests and curb the impacts of climate change, the president said.

Developed countries will not be protected from the effects of climate change unless they take vulnerable countries on board, experts said yesterday ahead of the G7 summit.

Despite a massive reduction in commuting and in many commercial activities during the early months of the pandemic, the amount of carbon in Earth's atmosphere in May reached its highest level in modern history, a global indicator released on Monday (June 7) showed.

After a turbulent year, it looks like the world is at last coming to grips with the pandemic. In countries where it once looked as if the disease was raging out of control, infection rates are down, vaccinations are up and lockdowns are loosening.

COP26 President-Designate Alok Sharma has highlighted the importance of the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest, saying that it plays a significant role as a carbon sink.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today said Bangladesh needs to build embankments with renewable energy facilities along the coastal belt as part of “climate mitigation” to save its people from becoming climate migrants due to the rising sea level.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said that Bangladesh expects the UK to promote the interests and priorities of climate vulnerable countries to international platforms.