Environment

The Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) presented Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina with the Local Adaptation Champions honor today. Bangladesh was the inaugural recipient of this honor, given for its pioneering work in establishing local adaptation programs...

PSDI Consultancy, ASED Habigonj and Share the Planet Association, Japan jointly organized an online environmental dialogue titled “Environmental protection and need for a liveable green planet requires multifaceted and integrated initiatives”....Read More

BRAC held a number of activities to commemorate World Environment Day with the goal of reducing plastic pollution. Beach clean-ups, painting classes, planting trees, distributing saplings, talks, and youth awareness events were all part of these...

Following heavy rains, a pit collapsed, trapping about thirty miners, and at least one person was killed, according to emergency officials on Wednesday. Nigerian rescuers were working to free the trapped miners. Abdullahi Baba Ara, the...

According to the government, the monsoon is predicted to arrive in Nepal on June 13 and stay until July 1. However, the government has issued a warning that up to 1.8 million people may be impacted...

President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea entirely revoked a 2018 military agreement aimed at lowering tensions with the North on Tuesday in reaction to Pyongyang’s last-week bombardment of balloons carrying garbage. The pact was struck...

Because of the country’s current heatwave, an Indian court has urged the government to declare a national emergency, citing weeks of harsh weather that have claimed hundreds of lives. With temperatures in some Indian cities scorching...

While BRAC Bank PLC has donated Taka 3 crore for the rehabilitation of the people impacted by Cyclone Remal, BRAC has contributed Taka 7 crore to the disaster aid fund named “Dakche Amar Desh” (Bangladesh is...

Five adjacent upazilas in Sylhet are home to about four lakh people who were trapped in a flash flood caused by heavy rain and water rushing upstream. For those impacted by the floods in Kanaighat, Jaintapur,...

The government’s weather agency reported that dangerously high temperatures were expected in the sprawling megacity of India on Wednesday, as the country’s capital saw temperatures surge to a national record-high of 52.3 degrees Celsius (126.1 Fahrenheit)....