Environment

In celebration of World Environment Day 2023, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Bangladesh has introduced jute-polymer-based biodegradable, environmentally friendly bags. Dr. Mubarak Ahmad Khan, a physicist, for Bangladeshi UN employees. According to a UNDP...

Due to the extreme heat wave sweeping the nation, all government elementary schools will remain closed from June 5 to June 8. According to a news release issued today, the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education...

The new director of the UN’s weather and climate agency, Celeste Saulo, promised to fight fervently against climate change and its detrimental effects on people’s lives. Saulo, who has been in charge of Argentina’s National Meteorological...

Authorities reported that one person has died, two people are missing, and dozens more have been hurt as a result of heavy rain in various parts of Japan. Thousands of citizens have also been warned to...

Extinction Rebellion’s protest in The Hague on Saturday resulted in more than 1,500 arrests, according to Dutch police. Throughout the afternoon, protesters against Dutch fossil fuel subsidies shut down a portion of a highway. Police reported...

More than any other region, children in the East Asia and Pacific region are having to survive multiple, often overlapping climate and environmental hazards and shocks, according to the latest UNICEF regional report ‘Over the Tipping...

On Tuesday, a volcano southeast of Mexico City ejected more gas and ash into the sky, as authorities kept their warning level at one notch below red alert. Dozens of shelters have been opened near Popocatepetl,...

A weeks-long struggle against wildfires in western Canada reached a “turning point” on Monday, with intermittent rainfall reported over hotspots and more precipitation on the way, officials said. The Alberta wildfires have displaced tens of thousands...

Greenpeace and residents of the Caribbean island of Bonaire have filed a lawsuit against the Dutch government to preserve the island from rising sea levels, the environmental organization announced on Thursday. Greenpeace said the seven residents...

As of Friday afternoon, the death toll from Cyclone Mocha in Myanmar had topped 140, according to the Information Team of Myanmar’s State Administration Council (SAC). According to the information team, 97 deaths were freshly recorded...