2024 is the warmest year on record, surpassing the Paris Agreement's 1.5°C threshold.
Just a few days ago, Sakhina Begum’s teenage grandson Ariful narrowly escaped a crocodile attack while he and his friend were catching crabs from a canal near his home.
Atmospheric concentrations of all three hit new highs in 2023, locking in future temperature increases for years to come, the World Meteorological Organization reported in October.
This means we need to find a balance between development and environmental conservation, and the time to act is now.
Dhaka stares down a fiery future, one choked by relentless heat. But there is hope.
Finance Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali has proposed to set aside a special allocation of Tk 100 crore for climate change and environmental protection in the national budget for the fiscal year 2024-25
At a time when efforts to combat climate change repercussions have intensified through forest conservation and extensive tree plantations, thousands of trees, across different species, are succumbing to adverse effects of climate change in the reserve forest area of Kuakata sea beach in Patuakhali district.
The heatwave currently searing Bangladesh has led to renewed focus on reforestation efforts. On social media, calls to take up tree-planting drives, and even take on the challenge of creating a world record for planting trees are being peddled
COP28 offered progress, albeit slow; but time is a luxury that nations like Bangladesh cannot afford.
Nature wants to be treated right and climate change impacts will become even harsher if positive changes are not incorporated in the current practices.
The fury came fast when makeup mogul Kylie Jenner posted a photograph last July of her and her boyfriend Travis Scott flanked by two private jets and captioned "you wanna take mine or yours?"
COP27 marked significant progress by officially recognising, for the first time, that young people can be effective agents of change.
Global meat consumption has increased significantly in recent decades, with per capita consumption almost doubling since the early 1960s, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Whereas an average of 23.1 kilograms (50.8 pounds) of meat per person were consumed annually in the '60s, the figure had risen to 43.2 kilograms in 2019. Studies show that wealthier countries tend to consume more meat. Projections show that global per capita meat consumption will climb to 69.5 kilograms in 2022 — but the figure will be 27.6 kilograms in the developing world.
Most of the world’s wealthiest are to blame for the rising use of private jets.
Imagine for a moment our city without cars, but with high-quality public transport, people zipping by on bicycles, others on foot.
Climate change is a problem which was (largely) made in the West, but we are feeling its impacts in countries like ours more than ever.
People living in climate-vulnerable areas urgently need government support
The average maximum temperature in Bangladesh for the month of August was a three-decade high.
The world is already feeling the impacts of human-induced climate change.
