Climate Change
You are the cause of climate change, we are the result: Yunus to developed countries
The Paris Agreement, the global accord for limiting the effects of climate change, won't work as long as the world sticks with the current economic system, Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus said yesterday
World's first CO2 storage service soon ready in Norway
The aim is to prevent the emissions from being released into the atmosphere, and thereby help halt climate change.
Khulna sees drop in average rainfall over four decades
Study says it could have critical implications for water resources, agricultural practices
Net zero goal critical to Earth's stability: study
If left unchecked, global warming could set in motion dangerous and irreversible changes to planetary systems such as the disappearance of ice sheets or a collapse of ocean currents.
No denying we’re victims of climate change, but we’re leaders of solutions, responses
The world is still not taking climate change seriously enough, even though the annual United Nations Conferences of Parties (COPs) try to focus minds on the urgency of the task
500-metre green belt to be built in coastal areas: Saber
Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Saber Hossain Chowdhury today said 17 percent of Bangladesh will be submerged in water due to the rise in sea level
Climate Change: Bangladesh may lose a third of agri output by 2050
Climate variability could result in the loss of one-third of Bangladesh’s agricultural GDP by 2050, said a recent World Bank report.
Financial pledge needed to tackle climate change
Tackling the impacts of climate change in Bangladesh requires substantial financial commitment, but the upcoming fiscal year's budget allocation falls short, experts said at a programme today
Organic foods perhaps good for you, but bad for environment
Organic food has been on the rise since it came into fashion; vegetables, fruit, grains, dairy and meat grown and processed using non-conventional methods not only tend to carry a hefty price tag, but are usually thought to be of higher quality and better for health, although production of organic food products may not be good for the environment.
Nations agree global climate pact rules, but seen as weak
Nearly 200 countries overcome political divisions to agree on rules for implementing a landmark global climate deal, but critics say it is not ambitious enough to prevent the dangerous effects of global warming.
UN climate negotiators sweat over detail and divides
Half-way through talks to breathe life into the Paris climate deal negotiators haggle over how to share the cost of curbing global warming and struggle to bridge deep political divides.
Bangladesh 7th most vulnerable
In a new global index, Bangladesh has been ranked seventh among the countries most affected by extreme weather events in 20 years since 1998.
UN chief urges leaders to inject momentum at 2019 climate summit
The UN secretary-general urges world leaders to join a climate change summit he will host in 2019 to explain how they plan to ratchet up their efforts to reverse worsening global warming that is leading to a "very dramatic situation".
Tackle 'greatest threat in thousands of years', David Attenborough urges world leaders
British broadcaster and environmentalist David Attenborough urges world leaders, meeting in Poland to agree ways to limit global warming, to get on and tackle "our greatest threat in thousands of years".
Climate change could cost US 'hundreds of billions' a year: study
Climate change is already hurting the global economy and will cost the US hundreds of billions of dollars annually by century's end unless drastic action is taken to cut carbon emissions, a major US government report warned on Friday.
World's rarest plants, vital crops can't be banked: Study
International efforts to save some of the world's rarest and economically important plants from climate change are doomed to fail because their seeds cannot be stored, researchers warn.
Trump says climate change not a hoax, not sure of its source
President Donald Trump is backing off his claim that climate change is a hoax but says he doesn’t know if it’s manmade and suggests that the climate will “change back again.”
UN report on global warming carries life-or-death warning
Preventing an extra single degree of heat could make a life-or-death difference in the next few decades for multitudes of people and ecosystems on this fast-warming planet, an international panel of scientists reported Sunday. But they provide little hope the world will rise to the challenge.