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 government has began an agriculture rehabilitation programme for more than four lakh small, poor and marginal farmers at a cost of nearly Taka 32 crore with the aim of getting over the losses caused by the devastating cyclone Aila last month. The agriculture ministry sources said the government would …
"The trends in disasters, particularly from climate change, are of enormous concern," said John Holmes, U.N. undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs. "We can only expect that this kind of trend is going to continue," he told a news conference. Holmes was speaking at the start of a four-day Global Platform for …
The Mortality Risk Index was issued by the U.N. International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) before a four-day meeting of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction opening on Tuesday at which 1,800 officials and experts will examine natural catastrophes. "There literally are no countries in the world that are …
Aila left in its wake a trail of destruction but efforts at regeneration are already on at the Agri-Horticultural Society of India (AHSI) at Alipore. The garden is gearing up for the impending monsoons when propagation is at its best and will rear upto 80,000 saplings this season through various …
The government has for the first time called for international help to rehabilitate the victims of cyclone Aila. Food Minister Abdur Razzak on Thursday urged development partners and NGOs at a meeting on post-Aila rehabilitation activities at his office to come out with assistance. He said the Government had earlier …
Biswabrata Goswami TAMLUK, 9 JUNE: Still struggling to come out of the trauma of the devastation caused by the cyclone Aila, people residing in the coastal belts in Midnapore East district are in the grip of a diarrhoea epidemic. Nearly 30 per cent of the Aila-affected people in Ramnagar-I and …
KOLKATA: The Left Front Committee in West Bengal has demanded that the May 25 cyclone destruction in three districts be declared a national disaster. In view of the magnitude of damage caused to human life, agricultural land and livestock in the Sundarbans, where lakhs have been rendered homeless and land …
The response of the Arabian Sea to global warming is the disruption in the natural decadal cycle in the sea surface temperature (SST) after 1995, followed by a secular warming. The Arabian Sea is experiencing a regional climate-shift after 1995, which is accompanied by a five fold increase in the …
Sabyasachi Roy SUNDERBANS, 7 JUNE: The shores of the Gumdi river flowing through this riverine delta appears to be a study in contrast, two weeks after cyclone Aila. On one side, the mangrove forest frequented by deer and ruled by the Royal Bengal tiger remain unaffected, while on the other …
Pakhiralay, June 7: A sense of relief swept across the Sunderbans after two weeks of living on the edge when the hungry tide that everyone had feared came without its appetite for destruction. Some embankments were breached, water levels of rivers rose and villages were inundated during the spring tide, …
The impact of climate change is worldwide. For Bangladesh they are most critical as large part of the population is chronically exposed and vulnerable to a range of natural hazards. Now, the human suffering and cost to development is massive to the country and its population who are victims of …
The severely degraded river systems will be reverted to their past grandeur whatever the cost, the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, declared on Friday. She pledged assistance of her administration to multidimensional researches into modes of combating environmental disasters. In the same breath, the prime minister urged Bangladeshis to prepare to …
The recent Cyclone Aila has caused widespread damaged to fishery resources of patuakhali district. The tidal surge that engulfed most part of the district, washed out 1717 shrimp farms of the districts and submerged about 50,000 ponds of the district. Many fishermen lost their fishing nets, trawlers and fishing boats. …
Thailand will donate Tk 13.65 lakh to the Prime Minister's Relief and Welfare Fund for the victims of cyclone Aila that recently hit the southern coastal districts. Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya pledged this to Foreign Minister Dipu Moni at her office during his recent visit to Bangladesh, says a …
KOLKATA, 4 JUNE: After a tiger had taken shelter in a village hut in the wake of cyclone Aila, wildlife experts are worried about the whereabouts of these big cats, many of which, may have been displaced from its natural habitat. Yet, these big cats could have been easily traced …
The users of Grameenphone (GP) and state-owned TeleTalk in Cox's Bazar and Sirajganj will receive from now on early warning message about impending natural disasters in a bid to reduce damages to life and property. Disaster Management Bureau (DMB) signed separate memorandum of understandings (MoUs) with the two mobile phone …
Many helpless families, all too frequently battered by destructive cyclones, subsequent tidal surges and constant river erosion, are abandoning their ancestral homes and livelihoods and increasing the number of environmental refugees in the country. Erratic changes in climatic conditions, rising frequency of cyclones, increased river erosion and failure to rehabilitate …
