Unicef is launching a new climate financing initiative to enhance countries’ climate resilience and disaster preparedness for children and youth and bolster protection for children from the impacts of future climate-related disasters.

Bangladesh has demanded that developed countries double their collective provision of adaptation finance by 2025, as was agreed at COP26 in Glasgow last year, and provide support to vulnerable countries to implement the National Adaptation Plan (NAP).

A farmer died after being trampled by an elephant in Netrakona’s Kalmakanda upazila on last night.

Fifteen years have gone by since Cyclone Sidr ravaged the coastal belt of Bangladesh. Coastal districts of Pirojpur, Bagerhat, Barishal, Patuakhali, Khulna and Satkhira were among the worst affected.

Climate change is seriously disrupting city life across the globe, Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Md Atiqul Islam said Monday, urging everyone to work together to save cities and their people. 

University Externado di Colombia held a day long public event on "social business for building a more equitable world" on its campus on the occasion of Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus visit to the country.

United Nations officers running security at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt said Monday they are probing allegations of surveillance and misconduct by Egyptian police towards delegates..Participants at COP27 -- including activists, rights defenders, and civil society groups -- have raise

A 20-year-old Indian national has been walking across Asian countries to generate awareness on plastic pollution.

Titas Gas Distribution Company Ltd has started disconnecting gas supply to households and industries in the capital due to unpaid bills of around Tk 1,500 crore.

Bangladesh has been awarded the Local Adaptation Champions Awards at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt along with three other countries.

The High Court today directed the government to stop operations of all illegal brick kilns and use of wood as fuels in the brickfields in seven days across the country to check environment pollution.

One week into this year's UN climate summit in Egypt, frustrations were starting to flare as negotiators worried about resolving myriad details in time for a deal by the summit's scheduled close on Friday.

Department of Disaster Management (DDM) distributed Tk 50 crore among the victims of river erosion in October 2021 through the Upazila Nirbahi Officers.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today sought fuel from Saudi Arabia, with deferred payment schedule.

An earthquake of magnitude 5.3 struck in Nepal on Saturday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said.

Fifty-two years ago today, a terrible cyclone and the resultant tidal surges claimed the lives of nearly 500,000 people in the country’s coastal districts, including Bhola, and caused extensive damage.

US President Joe Biden addressed the COP27 climate conference in Egypt on Thursday, saying the global climate crisis posed an existential threat to the planet and promising that the United States was doing its part to combat it.

The United Nations Friday cautioned that millions of people displaced by conflicts and persecution in Ukraine, Afghanistan and across the Middle East risk "extreme hardship" as winter approaches.

Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels, the main driver of climate change, are on track to rise one percent in 2022 to reach an all-time high, scientists said Friday at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt.

Tragedy struck after Hurricane Nicole hit the eastern shores of Florida as a Category 1 hurricane on Thursday morning, with two deaths reported.