Environment

India’s New Delhi’s primary schools will be closed starting on Saturday, and restrictions on vehicle traffic may also be considered, according to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who made the announcement on Friday as the capital’s air...

Huawei has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with BGMEA, the largest trade associations in the country representing the readymade garment industry, with a view to taking steps to address the current energy crisis and...

31 people have been killed by landslides and flooding as a result of the heavy rain brought by an approaching storm in the southern Philippines, as stated by a disaster official on Friday. The storm unleashed...

559 million children are currently exposed to high heatwave frequency*, according to new research from UNICEF. Further, 624 million children are exposed to one of three other high heat measures – high heatwave duration, high heatwave...

The cyclonic storm “Sitrang” crossed the Barishal-Chattogram coast near Bhola at midnight last night and weakened rapidly into a depression by giving precipitation. It now lies over Dhaka-Cumilla-Brahmanbaria and adjoining area as a land depression. “Coast...

Over 2.19 lakh people from 15 coastal districts of Bangladesh were evacuated until 5 pm today while more were expected to take makeshift refuge in safe shelters overnight as cyclone Si-Trang approaches Bangladesh’s southwestern coastlines, officials...

The maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra have all been advised to hoist local cautionary signal number 3. This is due to the fact that the depression over the east-central Bay has intensified...

More than 2.5 million people in Nigeria are in need of humanitarian assistance – 60 per cent of which are children – and are at increased risk of waterborne diseases, drowning and malnutrition due to the...

In the aftermath of the devastating floods in Pakistan, health facilities are reporting alarming levels of severe acute malnutrition among children in affected areas, UNICEF warned today. More than 1 in 9 children under five admitted...

Richer countries must increase climate support for African nations as accelerating impacts of global warming sicken and kill hundreds of thousands every year across the continent, scores of scientific health journals warned Wednesday, ahead of UN...