Environment

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...

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)....

Rich nations fulfilled their commitment to provide $100 billion in annual climate aid to developing nations for the first time in 2022, albeit two years later than anticipated, the OECD announced on Wednesday. The OECD report...

Small island nations around the world are bracing for shocks to their economies and environments due to their extreme vulnerability to climate change, lack of wealth to reverse it on their own, and lack of poverty...

Before Cyclone Remal is expected to make landfall in Bangladesh’s southern coastal districts, the World Food Programme (WFP) has moved swiftly dispatched cash assistance to households in Khulna and Barishal Division who are most in need....