Environment

Minister of the Environment, Forests, and Climate Change Saber Hossain Chowdhury stated today that as climate change is a global issue, everyone involved must take action. He also emphasized how important it is for artists to...

The capital’s Bailey Road building caught fire today, causing extensive damage and taking many lives. President Mohammed Shahabuddin voiced his shock and sadness at the losses. The Head of State expressed profound sympathy to the deceased...

Despite government attempts to combat the illegal trade in horns, poachers killed about 500 rhinos in South Africa last year, an increase of 11% over 2022, according to ministers on Tuesday. The bulk of rhinos on...

Japan will spend an additional $660 million rebuilding areas ravaged by a devastating New Year’s Day earthquake, its prime minister said, taking the total amount of quake relief to $1.7 billion. The magnitude-7.5 earthquake and its...

According to its prime minister, Japan will reconstruct areas devastated by a severe earthquake on New Year’s Day at a cost of $660 million more, bringing the total amount of relief efforts for the earthquake to...

On Sunday morning, Dhaka’s air quality was rated as poor for sensitive populations. On the list of cities with the worst air quality in the world, Dhaka came in at number eighteen, with an air quality...

Iraq’s once-mighty rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates, are choking under pollution from sewage to medical waste, trickled by drought and diminished by upstream dams. According to UN estimates, half the nation’s population does not have access...

The most severe warning in its three-tier warning system, the orange alert, was issued again by China’s meteorological officials on Monday for a cold wave. The signal foresees reductions in temperature across the majority of the...

In an ambitious effort to enhance the models that aid in the prediction and combat of air pollution, NASA has begun a series of long-duration flights in Asia using the largest flying laboratory in the world....

UNICEF and partners are responding to devastating flooding in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with the Congo River rising to levels not seen in more than 60 years. Eighteen out of DRC’s 26 provinces...