At least 242 million students in 85 countries had their schooling disrupted by extreme climate events in 2024, including heatwaves, tropical cyclones, storms, floods, and droughts, exacerbating an existing learning crisis, according to a new UNICEF analysis released today. Heatwaves were the predominant climate hazard shuttering schools last year, with …
The rising temperature may result in significant reduction in the Gross Domestic Product of Bangladesh which is part of the Himalayan system, apart from the risk the country is facing of losing 18 per cent of its land due to the rising water level of the oceans. Terming Bangladesh one …
Arabian Sea cyclones increasing in number, intensity the Arabian Sea, which has warmed by 0.5o C over the past nine decades, is experiencing a shift in its climate. So much so that intense cyclones with wind speed of more than 100 km per hour have become frequent, said a team …
Around 500 angry residents of a flood-hit Hooghly village circled two state ministers today, prompting them to hurry to their cars and leave. Relief minister Mortaza Hossain and civil defence minister Srikumar Mukherjee had gone to Deulpara in Pursura, an area that has been under chest-deep water for three days …
AS appeared in the press recently, Bangladesh has sought support from the international community for disaster preparedness and long-term rehabilitation work in the coastal belts following two catastrophic cyclones - Sidr and Aila - just in two years. Bangladesh needs support of development partners and agencies for long-term preparedness as …
Scientists and researchers at a dialogue in Rajshahi on Monday categorically stated that the industrial and richer nations are responsible for the climate change and they should take effective decisions right now to face the adverse impact of climate change and other environmental degradations. They viewed that the climate change …
Around two lakh people in Dakope and Koira upazilas in Khulna and Tala upazila in Satkhira district have become homeless or marooned due to the recent downpour and rise in the water level of rivers. One lakh 50 thousand people have become homeless in seven unions under Koira upazila of …
Flash floods submerged some 20 villages, affecting over 100,000 people, as a flood embankment was breached in several places at Dakope upazila, Khulna, officials said on Saturday. Water Development Board divisional engineer Abdur Hawladar told bdnews24.com, the villages were inundated as cracks developed in seven to eight spots in the …
Twenty-four hours of incessant rain, caused by a low in the Bay of Bengal, has left hundreds of thousands marooned as some 65 villages in Khulna and Barguna districts inundated, WDB officials said on Saturday, blaming delayed or poor repairs to damaged flood barriers after Cyclone Aila hit the southwest …
The World Climate Conference-3 concluded in Geneva Friday with a decision to create a global framework for climate services to help the global community better adapt to the challenges of the climate variability and change. The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, Friday chaired the high-level segment of the World Climate Conference. …
The Public Health Engineering (PHE) department had decided to undertake a project of setting up high-raised platform tubewells in different areas of South 24-Parganas and North 24-Parganas, that had been ravaged by the cyclone Aila in May this year. The project could not take off, as most of these areas, …
Two visiting UK ministers on Monday conveyed the commitment of their government to help Bangladesh meet the challenges of climate change. They apprised the commitment at a press conference at the British High Commission Club of city's Baridhara yesterday. British Council arranged the press briefing to launch its new project …
As the climate changes during the 21st century, larger cyclonic storm surges and growing populations may collide in disasters of unprecedented size. As conditions worsen, variations in coastal morphology will magnify the effects in some areas, while largely insulating others. This paper explores the implications for 84 developing countries and …
Ed Miliband and Douglas Alexander With the clock ticking and less than a hundred days to go until ministers from around the world meet at the U.N. climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, now is the time for the U.K. and India to work together to get a climate deal …
CPI(M)-Trinamul rivalry affects aid to cyclone Aila victims relief funds from the central government to help victims of cyclone Aila in West Bengal have hardly reached the needy. Political one-upmanship between the ruling cpi(m) in the state and Mamata Banerjee
Ananya Dutta Residents of the Sunderbans islands are forced to live on the embankments or on temporary huts put up on stilts. File Photo: Sushanta Patronobish The Hindu Residents of the Sunderbans islands are forced to live on the embankments or on temporary huts put up on stilts. File Photo: …
Ananya Dutta GOSABA (SUNDERBANS): Though large amounts of relief materials were rushed to the Sunderbans when cyclone Aila ripped through large areas here on May 25, three months later the supplies have dried up, now that the immediate crisis is over. However, a larger calamity looms over the region, waiting …
Despite being one of the most disaster-prone countries, Bangladesh's preparation for earthquake management is "almost zero", a top government official said on Wednesday while announcing a Tk 350 crore preparedness project. Food and Disaster Management Secretary Mokhlesur Rahman said, "This year we have procured some equipment for earthquake management, but …
State Minister for Environment and Forest Hasan Mahmud said Bangladesh as one of the most affected countries due to world climate change impacts has been tirelessly working to save its land and resources from the environmental hazards by managing its internal rivers. Mahmud, who is now on a visit to …
Food shortage may have forced diet change on july 17, Sunderbans forest officials posted in Netidhopani came across a dead tiger near their field office. A post mortem revealed the tiger had eaten two cobras, one of them was a king cobra. Tigers are not known to prey on snakes; …
