Environment

The present flood that has affected over 48 lakh people and claimed 15 lives has devastated 77 upazilas across 11 districts of the country. Eleven of the fifteen fatalities occurred in the districts of Cumilla, Feni,...

Flights in New Zealand were suspended on Thursday due to a volcanic explosion that released a plume of ash, and government experts have warned that the eruption might go for “weeks to months” more. The 2019...

Authorities announced on Wednesday that a Finnish-Swedish forestry business is accused of killing thousands of rare freshwater pearl mussels in Finland during a logging incident last week. In the village of Suomussalmi in eastern Finland, logging...

Due to the onslaught of upstream water and the continuous rain over the past few days, up to 1,90,000 families have been left stranded and one person has died in floods that affected six districts. In...

Australia on Wednesday approved plans for a massive solar and battery farm that would export energy to Singapore, a project dubbed the “largest solar precinct in the world”. Authorities announced environmental approvals for the US$24 billion...

An oil spill has dumped black sludge on beaches along Venezuela’s northwestern coast and affected fishing in the area, residents and environmental activists said Monday. In Puerto Cabello, near the El Palito refinery — the scene...

Flooding caused by torrential rainfall in war-torn Yemen has led to at least 60 deaths since July, with 13 others still missing and a total of 268,000 people affected, the United Nations said Monday. Yemen, already...

After hammering Puerto Rico and Bermuda, Ernesto re-formed into a hurricane on Sunday and moved far off the east coast of the US, posing a risk of wind and rain to the US and Canadian coastlines....

According to the port and the climate group, environmental activists tied themselves to a lock on Sunday at the Port of Amsterdam to stop a cruise ship from arriving. Extinction Rebellion, a group that has demanded...

A landslide that was caused by heavy rainfall early this morning claimed the lives of at least three people, including a woman and her family’s children. “The incident occurred at Jarulbhunia Segunbagicha area under Philkhali union...