Venturing outdoors may become deadly across wide swaths of Bangladesh, India and Pakistan by the end of the century as climate change drives heat and humidity to new extremes, according to a new study.

Scientists are sucking carbon dioxide from the air with giant fans and preparing to release chemicals from a balloon to dim the sun's rays as part of a climate engineering push to cool the planet.

Hundreds of people gather at a beach in Thailand to release 1,066 turtles into the sea as part of celebrations to mark the birthday of new King Maha Vajiralongkorn.

China, India, Indonesia and Vietnam have the world’s four biggest coal-fired power plants in pipeline. Together, they represent 82 percent of the 718 units globally under construction.

An iceberg, one of the largest on record, is set adrift after snapping off a West Antarctic ice shelf that is now at increased risk of collapse, scientists say.

World leaders at the G20 summit acknowledge US President Donald Trump's divergent stance on climate change, according to a draft communique seen by AFP.

The rise in global sea levels has accelerated since the 1990s amid rising temperatures, with a thaw of Greenland's ice sheet pouring ever more water into the oceans, scientists say.

Bangladesh and six other countries are the most extreme climate change hotspots in the world. Other countries are - Spain, Malawi, Norway, Brazil, US and Philippines.

Scientists studying global warming recently climb Bolivia's towering Mount Illimani and extract samples of glacier ice packed with thousands of years of climate data.

Nasa has recorded 510mm (20 inches) rainfall in southeastern Bangladesh between June 12 and 14 when landslides triggered by heavy downpour killed at least 150 people in five hilly districts so far.

G7 environment chiefs meet in Italy for potentially difficult talks 10 days after Donald Trump sparked a rift with US partners by pulling out of the Paris climate change accord.

Bangladesh ranks sixth among the world’s top 10 countries most affected by extreme weather events in the last 20 years, according to the Global Climate Risk Index by think-tank Germanwatch. On an average, a total of 679.05 people died in 185 climatic events in Bangladesh within the period of 1996 to 2015.

Climate change is undeniable and it is "absolutely essential" the world fight the problem together, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres argues, as US President Donald Trump considers pulling out of the Paris climate deal.

G7 leaders hold annual summit talks with divisions on trade and climate change, and fresh friction surrounding Donald Trump, threatening to undermine a show of unity against jihadist terrorism.

As UN negotiators meet in Bonn to thrash out rules for implementing the climate-rescue Paris Agreement, the stakes have never been higher.

G7 energy ministers fail to reach agreement on a joint statement on climate change after the United States express reservations, an Italian minister says.

Some 700 parliamentarians from around the globe are flying into Dhaka to participate in the Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) meeting and that would mean a lot of carbon footprint. But organisers have vowed to make annual assembly a carbon neutral one.

The lights are being switched off around the world at 8:30 pm, to mark the 10th annual Earth Hour, and to draw attention to climate change.

Financial leaders of the world's biggest economies dropped a pledge to keep global trade free and open, acquiescing to an increasingly protectionist United States after a two-day meeting failed to yield a compromise.

Finance ministers and central bankers from top economies battle to find common ground on world trade in the face of US President Donald Trump's "Buy American" drive.