Arctic posts 2nd warmest year on record in 2018

The Arctic had its second-hottest year on record in 2018, part of a warming trend that may be dramatically changing earth’s weather patterns, according to a report released on Tuesday by the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.
12 December 2018, 12:26 PM

UN climate negotiators sweat over detail and divides

Half-way through talks to breathe life into the Paris climate deal negotiators haggle over how to share the cost of curbing global warming and struggle to bridge deep political divides.
9 December 2018, 04:41 AM

Bangladesh 7th most vulnerable

In a new global index, Bangladesh has been ranked seventh among the countries most affected by extreme weather events in 20 years since 1998.
5 December 2018, 18:00 PM

UN chief urges leaders to inject momentum at 2019 climate summit

The UN secretary-general urges world leaders to join a climate change summit he will host in 2019 to explain how they plan to ratchet up their efforts to reverse worsening global warming that is leading to a "very dramatic situation".
5 December 2018, 05:50 AM

Tackle 'greatest threat in thousands of years', David Attenborough urges world leaders

British broadcaster and environmentalist David Attenborough urges world leaders, meeting in Poland to agree ways to limit global warming, to get on and tackle "our greatest threat in thousands of years".
4 December 2018, 04:55 AM

Climate change could cost US 'hundreds of billions' a year: study

Climate change is already hurting the global economy and will cost the US hundreds of billions of dollars annually by century's end unless drastic action is taken to cut carbon emissions, a major US government report warned on Friday.
24 November 2018, 04:24 AM

10-day long dolphin fair kicks off in Khulna

A ten-day long dolphin fair kicks off in Khulna with a call to take tangible steps to protect freshwater dolphins in the Sundarbans.
4 November 2018, 08:52 AM

World's rarest plants, vital crops can't be banked: Study

International efforts to save some of the world's rarest and economically important plants from climate change are doomed to fail because their seeds cannot be stored, researchers warn.
3 November 2018, 05:31 AM

Conquering the wild seas

Think wildlife conservation and what first comes to mind are men in grey or beige toned outfits and names like David Attenborough, George Schaller, John Muir, and Roger Payne.
1 November 2018, 18:00 PM

Wildlife declined 60pc in 44 years

Unbridled consumption has decimated global wildlife, triggered a mass extinction and exhausted Earth's capacity to accommodate humanity's expanding appetites, the conservation group WWF warned yesterday.
30 October 2018, 18:00 PM

Conservationists alarmed as China eases ban on tiger and rhino parts

China unveils new rules that would allow the use of rhino horn and tiger parts for some medical and cultural purposes, watering down a decades-old ban in a move conservation group WWF says could have "devastating consequences".
30 October 2018, 03:27 AM

Trump says climate change not a hoax, not sure of its source

President Donald Trump is backing off his claim that climate change is a hoax but says he doesn’t know if it’s manmade and suggests that the climate will “change back again.”
15 October 2018, 05:04 AM

UN report on global warming carries life-or-death warning

Preventing an extra single degree of heat could make a life-or-death difference in the next few decades for multitudes of people and ecosystems on this fast-warming planet, an international panel of scientists reported Sunday. But they provide little hope the world will rise to the challenge.
8 October 2018, 04:29 AM

Typhoon Mangkhut: Millions evacuated in China

More than three million people have been moved to safety in southern China as Typhoon Mangkhut moved northward and continued to wreak havoc across the region yesterday.
17 September 2018, 18:00 PM

World must prevent runaway climate change by 2020: UN chief

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warns that the world is facing “a direct existential threat” and must rapidly shift from dependence on fossil fuels by 2020 to prevent “runaway climate change.”
11 September 2018, 04:38 AM

The Ocean Cleanup project sails out to sweep Pacific plastic

A supply ship towing a long floating boom designed to corral ocean plastic sets sail from San Francisco for a test run ahead of a trip to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
10 September 2018, 06:11 AM

Global warming will make insects hungrier, eating up key crops: study

Researchers find a new way that global warming is bad for the planet: more hungry bugs.
31 August 2018, 05:18 AM

Earth's intact forests vanishing at accelerating pace: Scientists

Earth's intact forests shrank by an area larger than Austria every year from 2014 to 2016 at a 20 percent faster rate than during the previous decade, scientists says.
21 June 2018, 04:58 AM

PM pushes for full implementation of Paris deal

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has stressed the need for full implementation of the Paris Agreement as Bangladesh needs greater support for climate change adaptation.
10 June 2018, 04:10 AM

2 sportscar-sized satellites in orbit to measure Earth's water

A SpaceX rocket blasts off a duo of sports car-sized satellites built by the US and Germany to reveal changes in sea level rise, ice melt and drought on Earth.
23 May 2018, 05:06 AM