Climate Emergency

Climate Emergency
Thousands of people in Sylhe and Sunamganj have become stranded in floods. Although water recedes in place, people are struggling with acute crisis of food and drinking water. This picture is taken from Thana Bazar, Companiganj, Sylhet on 19 June 2022.

Climate change is driving 2022 extreme heat, flooding

Extreme weather events – from scorching heatwaves to unusually heavy downpours – have caused widespread upheaval across the globe this year, with thousands of people killed and millions more ...

The residents of Hiran Nagar are completely deprived of the joy of life. Their lives are full of struggles to survive

A lacklustre town of misery and despair

Some 28.9 per cent people in the rural and slum areas of Barishal cannot afford three meals a day

Svalbard is warming five to seven times faster than on the planet as a whole, meteorologists say.

Warming climate upends Arctic mining town

Climate change meant shorter winters; temperatures that yo-yo; more frequent precipitation, increasingly in the form of rain; and thawing permafrost

Plants are seen in a burned forest at the Nembi Guasu conservation area in the Charagua, Bolivia on 24 September 2019.

Mass biodiversity loss would slash global credit ratings: Report

Major global biodiversity loss could cause enough economic damage by the end of the decade to severely cut more than half of the world's sovereign credit ratings - including China's, the first major ...

This image courtesy of Kristin Laidre of the University of Washington shows a polar bear standing on a snow-covered iceberg that is surrounded by fast ice, or sea ice connected to the shore, in Southeast Greenland in March 2016

Climate change Scientists find new population of polar bears in sea-ice free region

Polar bears face an existential threat from the rapid decline of Arctic sea ice, which they rely on as platforms to hunt seals

Map of France giving heatwave warnings per region for 16-17 June

Early heatwave sweeps France as fires flare in Spain

Officials in Paris and other cities have also issued alerts over ozone pollution, which occurs when intense sunlight transforms carbon emissions into smog

Vehicles are moving on a dusty road as air pollution worsens during winters in Tongi area of Gazipur, Bangladesh, on 3 February 2022

Paris Polluted air cuts global life expectancy by two years

Microscopic air pollution caused mostly by burning fossil fuels shortens lives worldwide by more than two years, researchers reported Tuesday.

Graphic showing the different levels of commitments by more than 2,000 large companies towards zero carbon emissions.

Flood of net-zero vows suffer 'credibility gap'

Most rich countries have announced they will be net-zero by 2050, while China and India have vowed to reach that point by 2060 and 2070, respectively.

A demonstrator (L) holds a "WTO" placard in a rally against the World Trade Organization on the eve of the WTO Ministerial Conference, in Geneva on 11 June, 2022.

Ministers gather for high-stakes WTO meet

The World Trade Organization gathers ministers in Geneva Sunday to tackle pressing issues including global food security threatened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, overfishing and equitable access ...

Fighting against climate change in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh, other climate-battered nations hunt elusive cash at UN talks

International finance for adaptation, at little more than $20 billion a year, remains far below the annual $70 billion developing countries are estimated to need - an amount that could rise to $300 ...

Slash airline emissions to meet Paris targets: report

Slash airline emissions to meet Paris targets: report

The world needs “early, aggressive and sustained” government intervention to cut aviation emissions if Paris Agreement temperature goals are to be met, a think tank said Thursday

Sixty Dome Mosque in Bagerhat

Bangladesh’s historic coastal mosques feel climate change’s bite

The threats in Mosque City are similar to those facing about 127 protected archaeological sites - many of them historic mosques - in Bangladesh’s coastal districts

A worker holding a Swiss flag that removed at the end of the season next to the ice cave watches the Rhone Glacier partially covered with insulating foam to prevent it from melting due to global warming near Gletsch on 27 October, 2021

Climate talks test global resolve on warming

Negotiators from almost 200 countries will meet in Bonn Monday for climate talks tasked with reigniting momentum on tackling global warming, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine overshadows the threat ...

This file photo taken on 30 August 2019 shows the cityscape of Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands.

Dutch port's rooftop walk shows post-climate future

As one of the world's most densely populated countries grapples with climate change, the Dutch are taking to their rooftops.

Flags of USA and Bangladesh

Dhaka interested to receive US investment for infrastructure opportunities

The US encouraged Bangladesh to consider joining the Global Methane Pledge, urge major emitting countries to do more on climate initiatives, and continue outlining adaptation priorities

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