Environment

In the storm-ravaged northern Philippines, rivers overflowed Tuesday after heavy rain and a dam breach, swamping thousands of homes with floodwaters up to four meters high. Over the weekend, Typhoon Man-yi flooded large areas of the...

Syeda Rizwana Hasan, adviser for the environment, forests, and climate change, called on the world community to respect the Common but Differentiated Responsibilities (CBDR) principle today. “Delaying action until after 2030 is not an option. To keep...

 The lawsuit seeks emotional and psychological harm in addition to unspecified damages for unpaid contractual obligations. The action, according to Aficionado’s lawyer William Reed, is an attempt “to force Ye to learn that this conduct has...

Starting at 9 a.m. today, the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) forecasted that the country’s skies would be partly cloudy and dry for the next 24 hours. “The country may experience a small drop in daytime and...

In its first 100 days since entering office on August 8, the interim government has implemented practical disaster management and relief efforts in the wake of the August 5 overthrow of Sheikh Hasina’s dictatorship due to...

On Thursday night, New Delhi, the capital of India, issued an order for all primary schools to close till further notice because of the deteriorating air pollution in the expansive metropolis. Chief minister Atishi, who uses...

Professor Muhammad Yunus, chief adviser, urged young people today to dream big in order to accomplish their life goals because dreams have great power. “You have to dream . . . the dream is the most...

The residents of 2,500 villages were ordered to evacuate their homes as Severe Tropical Storm Toraji approached the northern Philippines, the government said Sunday, after three massive cyclones battered the country in less than a month....

At least 130 homes have been destroyed by a wildfire raging outside Los Angeles, as a break in the weather Friday gave firefighters a chance to tame the blaze. Hurricane-strength winds this week fueled an explosion...

Days after it killed nine people and displaced hundreds of residents, a volcano in eastern Indonesia erupted once more on Saturday, blasting a massive ash tower nine kilometres (more than five miles) into the sky. On...