Scrolling through the morning papers or glancing at our phone screens, there is one recurring piece of news that never fails to break our hearts: the untimely demise of people struck by lightning.

Before the start of the disaster season, there is a rush of house changes along the coast. People on the banks of the Meghna River are busy repairing their houses.

The window for building domestic environmental capacity is narrowing on one side and widening on the other, and the graduates standing in that aperture are better trained than the system deserves credit for producing.

On a hot, humid morning in the coastal village of Satkhira, Rahima Begum wades through waist-deep saline water to reach the nearest health facility.

As Bangladesh approaches another parliamentary election, political rhetoric is intensifying, development pledges are being recycled, and candidates are once again courting voters with familiar promises.

Bangladesh is once again featured prominently in the latest Climate Risk Index (CRI), a report widely cited by global media, policymakers, and international funders to assess countries’ exposure to climate impacts.

On January 7, President Donald Trump withdrew the US from 66 international organisations, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Combat rising migraine frequency by managing environmental triggers like barometric pressure shifts and heatwaves. Climate change intensifies neurological pain, requiring proactive hydration and stress management to mitigate systemic inflammation and lost productivity during attacks.

The Ashtomashi Badh, or eight-month embankment, historically shaped the southwest coast of Bangladesh into an ek fosholer desh—a single-crop landscape—where peasants cultivated rice once a year using fresh water.

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After COP30, the much-needed transition away from fossil fuels still seems unachievable.

As the impacts of climate change become more severe with deadly heatwaves, eroding coastlines, rising food prices, and increasing social and economic instability, affected countries, particularly poor ones, are getting concerned about having to slow their development while addressing climate change.

More than half of households in Bangladesh’s coastal belt report struggling to cope with rapid climate change, citing a lack of adequate disaster-protection infrastructure, according to a new World Bank survey.

Most of the recent discussions on climate change in Bangladesh have been focused solely on funding.

Taseen won a gold medal at the International Olympiad on Climate Change and Environmental Issues (IOCE) 2025. 

Although advisory in nature and not legally binding, these rulings carry immense normative weight.

The court does not specify how reparations in case of litigations should meet the distinct needs of women and marginalised communities.

The ICJ concluded that states have explicit legal duties to safeguard the climate system against anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.

The COP30 presidency wishes to achieve some tangible outcomes.

Climate change is a man-made problem, but campaigners and irresponsible politicians have blown this out of proportion.