Environment

Experts today stressed the need for strengthening regional cooperation to protect vultures from extinction in South Asia, according to a report of BSS. It is high time to work together to save the nature cleaners from...

Canada is warming on average at a rate twice as fast as the rest of the world, a new scientific report indicates. The federal government climate report also warns that changes are already evident in many...

The Coca-Cola Company, its local bottling partners and The Coca-Cola Foundation are providing disaster relief assistance to communities impacted by Cyclone Idai in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi. The philanthropic arm of The Coca-Cola Company, The Coca-Cola...

Thousands of German youths went on strike from school on Friday, joining Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg who has taken her protest against climate change to Berlin. Armed with homemade posters bearing slogans like “It’s getting...

Even as the number of coal-fired power plants under development worldwide declines, increased coal use in China and a proposal to boost capacity could imperil global climate change goals, researchers have warned The industry’s powerful China...

Survivors of a cyclone that pummelled southern Africa began receiving medicine, food and tents Tuesday as floodwaters receded, while officials warned up to 500,000 people are displaced in the storm-struck region. Cyclone Idai smashed into Mozambique’s...

Director of International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), Dr. Saleemul Huq has been selected among the “World’s 100 Most Influential People in Climate Policy for 2019”. The declaration came last evening on the official...

Bangladesh today joined the World Meteorological Day-2019, with its global theme this year being “the Sun, the Earth and the Weather” against the backdrop of growing climate change concerns. Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) staged a workshop...

Bangladesh is one of the most climate vulnerable countries in the world. According to the Climate Risk Index (2018), Bangladesh is in sixth position having experienced 187 climate-related extreme weather events (hereafter “EWEs”) between 1997 and...

The death toll from a cyclone that smashed into Mozambique and Zimbabwe rose to more than 300 on Tuesday as rescuers raced against the clock to help survivors and the UN led the charge to provide...