An earthquake was felt near Afghanistan’s Fayzabad this morning, according to India's National Center for Seismology.

A rain-weakened hillside collapsed in Ecuador’s capital, sweeping over homes and a sports field and killing at least 24 people, city officials said Tuesday.

A moderate earthquake, measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale, jolted Chattogram, Bandarban and adjoining areas this afternoon.

The past seven years have been the hottest on record, the United Nations confirmed Wednesday, adding that 2021 temperatures remained high despite the cooling effect of the La Nina weather phenomenon.

Tonga’s massive underwater volcanic eruption could deliver long-lasting damage to coral reefs, erode coastlines and disrupt fisheries, say scientists studying satellite images and looking to the past to project the future of the remote region:

At least 26 people were killed after an earthquake hit western Afghanistan on Monday, an official said.

All infrastructural projects in Bangladesh should be climate-smart as the country aims to achieve the goals committed to the UN in reducing carbon emission, said officials and development experts yesterday.

About a hundred families of Khabaspur Karalpara area in Faridpur town are passing days in panic as sudden erosion by the Kumar river has devoured homesteads and fresh areas within couple of days.

An estimated 580 homes, a hotel and a shopping center have burned and tens of thousands of people were evacuated in wind-fueled wildfires outside Denver, officials said Thursday evening.

From deadly Hurricane Ida in the United States to devastating floods in China and Europe, climate change-fuelled disasters have cost the world tens of billions of dollars in 2021, with both the poor and the rich hit hard, researchers said on Monday.

A 5.3-magnitude earthquake has shaken the Bay of Bengal today. The quake struck at 3:19 am (UTC), according to the US Geological Survey (USGS).

The governor of an island province in the central Philippines said Sunday at least 63 people died in the devastation wrought by Typhoon Rai in more than half of the towns that managed to contact him, bringing the death toll in the strongest typhoon to batter the country this year to at least 112.

A powerful typhoon left at least 19 people dead, knocked down power and communications in entire provinces and wrought widespread destruction mostly in the central Philippines, officials said Saturday. A governor said her island province has been “leveled to the ground.”

Four months ago, Nesar Uddin (65) had a homestead, arable land and an orchard. But now there exists nothing. Nesar along with his seven-member family has taken shelter on the land of others. The family is now passing their days amid hardship and starvation.

Crops, especially winter vegetables, on vast areas have been damaged due to the untimely rain that lashed different districts across the country in the last three days.

The untimely rain that lashed different areas of the country for the last two days could result in extensive damage to crops, especially winter vegetables and seedbeds.

The unexpected tide of the Sakbaria river, due to depression in the Bay, has inundated two villages in Khulna's Koyra upazila. As a result, around 200 families in the villages of Gatirgheri and Hariharpur are waterlogged.

More than 1,000 tourists remain stranded in St Martin's island due to rough weather caused by Cyclone Jawad in the Bay of Bengal.

Cyclonic storm Jawad over west-central Bay and adjoining northwest Bay moved northwards further and weakened into a deep depression, according to Bangladesh Meteorological Department.

Disaster officials in Indonesia raised the death toll in the eruption of Mount Semeru to 13 on Sunday, as rescuers working through the night freed as many as 10 people from the debris.