Climate Change

Climate Change
Cyclonic storm Amphan destroyed the house of Sahida Khan. Currently she lives with her husband and three children at a house built on a dam. As river Kapotakkha is surging due to the effect of Cyclone Yaas, she is in fear losing the last straw in Loka area of Koyra upazila, Khulna on 25 May 2021

Women in rural Bangladesh pay more for rising cost of climate disasters

Low-lying Bangladesh is extremely vulnerable to the impacts of rising global temperatures, including more severe monsoon flooding, fiercer storms and higher sea levels

Dead fish appear on the beaches of La Manga del Mar Menor, Murcia, Spain, 21 August, 2021

Oceans at most acidic level in 26,000 years: Report

Humanity must drastically cut its greenhouse gas emissions or face increasingly catastrophic changes to the world's climate

This aerial view image taken on 3 May, 2022 shows sea ice in the Borebukta Bay, located at the northwestern side of Isfjorden, in Svalbard Archipelago, northern Norway

Climate change indicators hit record highs in 2021: UN

Four key climate change indicators all set new record highs in 2021, the United Nations said Wednesday, warning that the global energy system was driving humanity towards catastrophe

People suffer under the scorching sun.

Every heatwave enhanced by climate change: experts

Burning fossil fuels and destroying forests have released enough greenhouse gases into the atmosphere to also boost the frequency and intensity of many floods, droughts, wildfires and tropical storms

Special Envoy to the Climate Vulnerable Forum’s Presidency, Md Abul Kalam Azad, receivs the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star award at the Imperial Palace in Japan on 10 May 2022

Ex-principal secretary receives ‘Order of the Rising Sun’ award

He also played an important role in extending support and trust-building with Japan after the July 2016 Holey Artisan attack - contributing to smooth continuity of Japan-Bangladesh bilateral relations

Planning Minister MA Mannan and USAID Deputy Administrator for policy and programming, Isobel Coleman, lunches the five-year project at a Dhaka hotel on 10 May 2022

USAID launches project to protect Sundarbans, Sylhet forests

As a result of the ‘Protibesh’ project, Bangladesh will be able to combat the effects of climate change, protect the country’s critical natural sources and build resilience to climate induced natural ...

An aerial view of the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of the Whitsunday Islands, along the central coast of Queensland

Summer heatwave bleaches 91 per cent of Great Barrier Reef: report

A prolonged summer heatwave in Australia left 91 percent of the Great Barrier Reef’s coral damaged by bleaching, according to a new government monitoring report

Author Amitav Ghosh

Author Amitav Ghosh lauds Bangladesh’s climate innovations

Celebrated author and climate change activist Amitav Ghosh has appreciated Bangladesh’s action to fight climate change challenges though he is worried for West Bengal

Mubarak Hossain's home in North Bedkashi village, in southern Bangladesh, was left isolated on an island after flooding driven by Cyclone Amphan, on 30 April 2021

Climate disasters drive Bangladesh children from classrooms to work

As more extreme weather drives worsening flooding, erosion and storms in low-lying Bangladesh, thousands of families like hers are moving to the slums of Dhaka

Bird population is declining globally

Researchers observe increasing decline in bird population globally

Loss and degradation of natural habitats and direct overexploitation of many species are cited as the key threats to avian biodiversity

New Zealand sea level rising more quickly than forecast

New Zealand sea level rising more quickly than forecast

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said adaptation planning was already underway, including budgeting for the relocation of some communities and infrastructure away from vulnerable coastlines

While the tropical oceans would lose the most species, many from these areas would migrate to higher latitudes in order to survive, a study said on Thursday.

Study predicts mass marine life extinction if warming continues

While the tropical oceans would lose the most species, many from these areas would migrate to higher latitudes in order to survive

Newly appointed IOM Chief of Mission in Bangladesh, Abdusattor Esoev (L), calls on Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen at the Ministry on 26 April 2022

Dhaka calls for more IOM role in helping climate migrants

Esoev briefed the minister about IOM’s upcoming work in Bhashan Char, among other issues

Adaptive cropping systems to increase food production in charlands: Webinar

Adaptive cropping systems to increase food production in charlands: Webinar

Scientists have tested and identified improved and climate smart crop varieties and cropping patterns for the charlands (river islands) of Bangladesh that will not only increase the overall crop ...

Barapukuria coal mine yard

Coal still top threat to global climate goals: report

Three-quarters of the new coal power plants that broke ground last year were in China, where newly commissioned capacity offset coal plant retirements in all other nations combined

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