Weather

Dhaka air quality turns ‘moderate’

AQI, an index for reporting daily air quality, is used by government agencies to inform people how clean or polluted the air of a certain city is

Met office predicts more monsoon rains across country

Amid worsening flood situation in parts of Bangladesh, the meteorological department forecast more downpours in 24 hours commencing 9.00am on Monday due to active monsoon over Bangladesh

Lightning kills nine people across country

Six deaths have been reported from Mymensingh district alone

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

US hammered by weather-related catastrophes

Raging floods, devastating fires, powerful thunderstorms and a dangerous heat wave affecting a third of the population: the United States was being walloped Tuesday by climate-related catastrophes

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 ...

Vanuatu declares climate emergency

"The Earth is already too hot and unsafe. We are in danger now, not just in the future, " says its prime minister

Early monsoon showers likely over Bangladesh

Early monsoon showers are likely to drench the eight divisions of the country in the next 24 hours, said the Met office on Saturday

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

Light to moderate rain likely across country

Asani weakens into cyclonic storm

It is likely to move in a northwesterly or northerly direction and weaken gradually into a deep depression in the next 24 hours, said a met office special bulletin

Severe cyclonic storm ‘Asani’ likely to weaken

Asani, the severe cyclonic storm in the Bay of Bengal, is likely to move in a north-western direction and weaken into a cyclonic storm over the next 12 hours, said the Met office on Tuesday

Heavy rainfall likely in Khulna, Chattogram, Barishal

Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) has predicted heavy showers in three divisions in the next 24 hours

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

Deep depression over southeast Bay intensifies into cyclone ‘Asani’

Maximum sustained wind speed within 54 kms of the cyclonic centre is about 62 kph which is rising up to 88 kph in gusts or squalls