Bangladesh met office considers overhauling rainfall classifications

Agriculture and construction workers face mounting income losses by 2030 as temperatures rise

Extreme heat in Bangladesh constitutes a severe labour rights crisis demanding urgent occupational health and safety reforms.

Climate change could have significant economic consequences for Bangladesh by 2050, with projections indicating a potential annual GDP loss of 2-9 percent, according to a paper presented at a programme yesterday.

Despite strong national policies and budget allocations on climate change and gender equality, Bangladesh is struggling to translate these measures into tangible benefits for climate-vulnerable women, said experts at a roundtable yesterday.

Take steps to protect children from escalating climate hazards

Women comprise 58 percent of Bangladesh’s agricultural workforce, but are rarely recognised as farmers in official classifications or extension services.

Thousands of people across the country are being displaced every day by climate-induced events such as river erosion, salinity intrusion, floods, and cyclones. In search of livelihoods, these people are moving to large cities.

Scrolling through the morning papers or glancing at our phone screens, there is one recurring piece of news that never fails to break our hearts: the untimely demise of people struck by lightning.

Before the start of the disaster season, there is a rush of house changes along the coast. People on the banks of the Meghna River are busy repairing their houses.

The window for building domestic environmental capacity is narrowing on one side and widening on the other, and the graduates standing in that aperture are better trained than the system deserves credit for producing.

On a hot, humid morning in the coastal village of Satkhira, Rahima Begum wades through waist-deep saline water to reach the nearest health facility.

As Bangladesh approaches another parliamentary election, political rhetoric is intensifying, development pledges are being recycled, and candidates are once again courting voters with familiar promises.

Bangladesh is once again featured prominently in the latest Climate Risk Index (CRI), a report widely cited by global media, policymakers, and international funders to assess countries’ exposure to climate impacts.

On January 7, President Donald Trump withdrew the US from 66 international organisations, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Combat rising migraine frequency by managing environmental triggers like barometric pressure shifts and heatwaves. Climate change intensifies neurological pain, requiring proactive hydration and stress management to mitigate systemic inflammation and lost productivity during attacks.

The Ashtomashi Badh, or eight-month embankment, historically shaped the southwest coast of Bangladesh into an ek fosholer desh—a single-crop landscape—where peasants cultivated rice once a year using fresh water.

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After COP30, the much-needed transition away from fossil fuels still seems unachievable.

As the impacts of climate change become more severe with deadly heatwaves, eroding coastlines, rising food prices, and increasing social and economic instability, affected countries, particularly poor ones, are getting concerned about having to slow their development while addressing climate change.