As Dharla erodes, riverbank families fear losing everything
18 August 2026
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Natural Disaster
Mild tremor jolts Narsingdi
17 August 2026
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Natural Disaster
Update / At least 111 killed after 7.4 quake hits Colombia
10 August 2026
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Natural Disaster
Cox’s Bazar landslides kill Rohingya child, disrupt Marine Drive traffic
5 August 2026
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Natural Disaster
Japan issues tsunami alert after 7.1-magnitude quake
28 July 2026
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Japan
Village on the brink: River erosion threatens families in Narail
28 July 2026
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Natural Disaster
Rain, floods damaged crops worth Tk 478cr
27 July 2026
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Climate crisis
Strong winds and rain lash China after Typhoon Noul makes landfall
26 July 2026
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China
Met office’s old ways mask true extent of rainfall
24 July 2026
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Climate crisis
Warning system struggles to keep pace as climate events intensify
23 July 2026
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Climate action
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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