Environment

Protect country from climate impact: PM

BSS, DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said her government aims to protect the country, its people and the nature from the natural calamities, urging all to plant saplings at empty

Unfavorable weather hits harvest of mangoes, litchis in Rajshahi, Dinajpur

TDS DESK: Agricultural officials say climate change has had an adverse impact on weather condition that resulted in poor yield of mango and litchi. Harvest of mangoes and litchis fell

CYCLONE REMAL: Forest workers, animals facing acute water crisis in Sundarbans

TDS DESK: Cyclone Remal has devastated the Sundarbans mangrove forest, leaving most of it submerged, around 80 ponds drained, and all the freshwater reservoirs destroyed. As a result, for the

‘Sundarbans may need 40 years to recover biodiversity losses’

TDS Desk: After Cyclone Remal left a trail of destruction in the Sundarbans, experts and officials fear that it may take up to 40 years to recover the losses to

Climate change caused 26 extra days of extreme heat in last year: Report

TDS Desk: The world experience an average of 26 more days of extreme heat over the last 12 months that would probably not have occurred without climate change, a report

Thousands flee as Cyclone Remal barrels towards country

AFP . Patuakhali: Tens of thousands of Bangladeshis left their coastal villages Sunday for concrete storm shelters further inland as the low-lying nation prepared for the expected landfall of an