Climate

  Bangladesh and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, ICIMOD, have reaffirmed their commitment to boosting climate resilience, managing transboundary rivers, and improving regional environmental governance. The pledge came […]

The government has constituted a 26-member Executive Committee of the National Environment and Climate Change Committee to strengthen policy coordination, monitoring and implementation of environment and climate-related initiatives. The Cabinet […]

The government is developing a Tree Monitoring App to modernise afforestation efforts by ensuring greater transparency, accountability and continuous monitoring of saplings planted under nationwide tree plantation programmes. The digital […]

Researchers at Newcastle University have carried out the first comprehensive modelling of glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) risk in Bhutan and identified previously unrecognised high-risk lakes. Importantly, the research also […]

When Balendra Shah took office as Nepal’s new prime minister in March following a landslide victory for his party, he inherited a fuel crisis triggered by the US-Israeli war on […]

A 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The earthquake hit the Jurm District at a depth of 216.7 kilometres. There were […]

Dhaka ranked joint first among the world’s most polluted cities on Thursday morning, sharing the top position with Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as air […]

The Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) has forecast light rain in Dhaka and adjoining areas over the next six hours while issuing a warning of temporary squalls and thunderstorms for 12 […]

The government is advancing plans to develop a 110-kilometre circular river route surrounding Dhaka alongside a ring road network to ease chronic traffic congestion in the capital and improve urban […]

The World Food Programme on Tuesday appealed for $50 million to feed some 500,000 people for three months in Venezuela after two deadly earthquakes devastated the country. Stephanie Hochstetter, head […]