Nagarik Samaj Chattogram, a citizens’ platform, yesterday demanded that the government relocate the hospital project from CRB area.

Wildfires fanned by blistering temperatures and tinder-dry conditions have killed at least seven people in Algeria, the interior minister said Tuesday, adding the fires had criminal origins.

Bangladesh is likely to face more frequent and more intense heavy rainfalls, flooding, and cyclones due to global climate change in the coming days, predicted the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

A light earthquake jolted the port city and adjoining areas this evening.

First Security Islami Bank Ltd (FSIBL) has taken an initiative to provide local weather forecasts to teachers of 250 schools and colleges of coastal areas in the country.

Until devastated by wildfires, hills near the Turkish sea resort of Marmaris were decked in thick green pine forest. Now these same hills form a ghostly, grey-brown landscape topped with blackened tree stumps as though sketched in charcoal.

A raging wildfire in northern California, now the second-largest recorded in state history, expanded to nearly 500,000 acres late on Sunday and has left three firefighters injured.

A rare freshwater crocodile was caught today from a reservoir by locals at the Dangi village of North Channel union of Faridpur Sadar upazila.

State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid today formally announced Zakiganj as the country’s 28th gas field -- having 68 billion cubic feet of gas reserve.

The UN climate panel sounded a dire warning today, saying the world is dangerously close to runaway warming – and that humans are "unequivocally" to blame.

Thousands of people have fled their homes on the Greek island of Evia as wildfires burned uncontrolled for a sixth day on Sunday, and ferries were on standby for more evacuations after taking many to safety by sea.

The Department of Environment (DoE) in Chattogram (Metro) fined four people Tk 6,90,000 for cutting hills in the port city.

Thousands of homes have been damaged in Sudan after torrential rains caused heavy flooding, with many streets in the capital Khartoum deep in water, AFP correspondents said Sunday.

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) on Friday called upon the government to revoke its plan to establish a safari park in Lathitila reserve forest in Moulvibazar.

The Teesta River is eroding and in its wake is turning many people landless and homeless in Lalmonirhat.

The Atlantic Ocean's current system, an engine of the Northern Hemsiphere's climate, could be weakening to such an extent that it could soon bring big changes to the world's weather, a scientific study said on Thursday.

Greek authorities ordered villages near the site of the ancient Olympic Games in the western Peloponnese to be evacuated on Wednesday as wildfires raged across the country, destroying swathes of forest and buildings, and sending hundreds fleeing.

Hundreds of families have been rendered landless and homeless due to the continuous erosion of the Brahmaputra River.

At least 19 people were killed and 16 others injured by lightning in two incidents in Chapainawabganj and Kishoreganj yesterday.

The government only recently decided to set up warning systems in 723 lightning prone areas in the country, even though 2,400 people died in lightning strikes over the past decade, including 19 just yesterday.