Climate

1 April 2020 UN weather experts warned on Wednesday that the coronavirus pandemic risks disrupting key forecasting services, including early warning alerts around the world. Read More »

By Kanis Dursin JAKARTA, Mar 23 2020 (IPS) – Samsul sounded very happy last Monday (Mar. 16) when recounting his experience of catching crabs worth more than $60 in a single day. “I hauled over 12 kilograms of crabs on that day, which I sold to local traders,” Samsul told IPS during a phone interview from Sungai Nibung, a fishing ... Read More »

World Water Day: Often overlooked, water resources are an essential part of the solution to climate change On World Water Day, the United Nations launched a flagship report which says that reducing both the impacts and drivers of climate change will require major shifts in the way we use and reuse the Earth’s limited water resources. Read More »

By Xari Jalil Mar 13 2020 (IPS) – Unpredictable weather patterns in the form of excessive or prolonged rainfall are wreaking havoc for farmers across Pakistan as sowing and harvesting periods are severely affected. Read More »

Carbon dioxide as a raw material for the chemical industry – seeking a climate-friendly and economically viable industrial concept. Read More »

by Ibrahim Thiaw BONN – In the face of climate change, providing reliable supplies of renewable energy to all who need it has become one of the biggest development challenges of our time. Meeting the international community’s commitment to keep global warming below 1.5-2°C, relative to preindustrial levels, will require expanded use of bioenergy, carbon storage and capture, land-based mitigation ... Read More »

By Fairuz Ahmed NEW YORK, Feb 17 2020 (IPS) – For any riverine country, the state of the water body around big cities and conditions of major rivers hold a leadership position in the overall climate effects and how the water body is protected and preserved impacts the entire economy and living standards of that country. Read More »

8 February 2020 Fresh fears of accelerating damage to the planet’s ice sheets and sea-level rise have been fuelled by confirmation from the UN’s weather agency that the Antarctic likely saw a new temperature record of more than 18°C on Thursday. Read More »

January 28, 2020 SANDRP In July 2019, former Prime Minister of Bhutan and President of the People’s Democratic Party Tshering Tobgay makes impassioned plea to act on the melting glaciers of Hindu Kush due to climate change and among other things, form a Third Pole Alliance of eight countries of the region, including China, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar ... Read More »

by Adam Tooze Adam Tooze stresses that the critical COP26 conference later this year hinges on European unity and radical leadership. There are turning points in history. Moments that matter, those mark beginnings and ends. As Martin Luther King reminded us, ‘There is such a thing as being too late.’ It is that which can give politics its fierce urgency. ... Read More »

The death of a minor boy suffering from cold-related diarrhoea came in from Kurigram as a cold wave, sweeping over Bangladesh’s northern region, intensified. Read More »

By Pierpaolo Grippa, Jochen Schmittmann, and Felix Suntheim WASHINGTON DC, Jan 16 2020 (IPS) – Climate change is already a reality. Ever-more-ferocious cyclones and extended droughts lead to the destruction of infrastructure and the disruption of livelihoods and contribute to mass migration. Read More »

Kurigram, Jan 22 – People in Bangladesh’s northern district Kurigram is shivering as a moderate cold wave started sweeping over the region on Wednesday, after five days of reprieve. Read More »

The UN Human Rights Committee has determined that countries cannot deport people who have sought asylum due to climate-related threats. Read More »

Dhaka, Jan 20 – The surface urban heat island (SUHI) in the urban core of Dhaka is 3.4 degrees Celsius higher than rural locations, posing various threats to the city dwellers, according to a study. Read More »

The season’s last cold wave is likely to start sweeping across Bangladesh from Wednesday after rain in Rajshahi, Rangpur, Sylhet, Mymensingh and some parts of Dhaka division, the Met Office said Sunday. Read More »

By Farhana Haque Rahman Rome, Jan 6 2020 (IPS) – Let’s face what lies ahead with open eyes: 2020 is going to be a very tough year for the world, and developing countries in particular. The infant decade has already begun with the harbingers of climate disaster as thousands fled to beaches in Australia from raging bush fires, and the ... Read More »

Dhaka, Jan 04 – A climate advocacy group on Saturday vented its frustration over the outcome of the COP25 meet, saying Bangladesh should come up with its own alternative to fight climate change. Read More »

Dhaka, Jan 03- Dhaka as well as the most of Bangladesh woke up to chilly drizzles on Friday morning creating cold waves, which is likely to sweep over the country and continue till tomorrow (Sunday). Read More »

Dec 03 – Dhaka has seen a slight improvement in the (AQI) after rain in winter on Friday morning. The city ranked 36th in AQI with a score of 122 at 8:47 am. Read More »

Dhaka, Dec 03 – The residents of Dhaka and people elsewhere in the country woke up to drizzles on Friday morning as forecast by the Bangladesh Meteorological Department. The drizzles made the atmosphere chilly after several days of a rise in night temperature. Read More »

A mild cold wave which is sweeping over the regions of Panchagarh, Dinajpur & Nilphamari may continue and spread further, according to a Met office forecast. Read More »

Dhaka, Dec 26 – The temperature plummeted further to 5.7˚C in Panchagarh’s Tetulia on Thursday morning. Read More »

At least 10 people have died after a powerful typhoon hit the central Philippines on Christmas Day, with the death toll likely to rise. Read More »

By Sally Jewell Washington, DC – As world leaders gathered at the 25th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25) in Madrid from December 2-13, the discussed concrete steps for meeting and increasing national emissions-reduction targets. But equally important, COP25 offered an opportunity to elevate one of the most powerful tools we have to address climate change: nature. Read More »

By Jules Kortenhorst and Andrew Steer Boulder, Colorado – The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25) took place in Madrid was supposed to prepare the ground for more ambitious national climate commitments. Nowhere was this more important than in the country where national leadership on climate change is least likely: the United States. Read More »

Dhaka, Dec. 24 – Ferry operation on Shimulia-Kathalbari route remained suspended since early Tuesday due to dense fog, causing sufferings to hundreds of passengers amid shivering cold. Read More »

Dhaka, Dec 23 – Chilling cold weather is likely to continue as a cold snap, accompanied by rain, might hit the country later this month, the Met Office said Sunday. Read More »

A cold wave sweeping over the country is likely to linger at least another day.“The situation will start improving from Sunday,” Kawser Parvin, deputy director of Bangladesh Meteorological Department, told UNB. Read More »

20 December 2019 – Devastating drought in the southern African nation of Lesotho has left more than half a million people facing severe food shortages and tens of thousands “one step away from famine”, UN humanitarians said on Friday, in an appeal for funds. Read More »