Over 100 families have been rendered homeless by the Padma river’s erosion at Goaldubi village under Sadar upazila of Chapainawabganj in last three weeks.

Taxi fleets in Thailand are giving new meaning to the term “rooftop garden,” as they utilize the roofs of cabs idled by the coronavirus crisis to serve as small vegetable plots.

Due to continuing erosion of the Teesta, five villages, Char Gatiashyam, Bogurapara, Khitab Khan, Nakenda and Dhusmara of Gharialdanga union, of Rajarhat upazila in Kurigram were completely washed away into the river.

Over 20 families have lost their homesteads and vast areas of cropland as the erosion of Padma has taken a serious turn in two-kilometre-long stretch on the riverside area of Kanchanpur in Manikganj’s Harirampur upazila in the last three weeks.

Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister, Md Shahab Uddin, today said that the government is sincerely working to accommodate all the people affected by climate change by providing the required number of houses for them.

Due to deep depression formed in the Bay of Bengal, it has been raining intermittently in the Barishal region since this morning.

Around 17% of Bangladesh will be submerged by rising sea levels, rendering 20 million people homeless, by 2050.

The maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox's Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been directed to keep hoisted local cautionary signal 3 as the depression over Northwest Bay and adjoining Odisha coast intensified further into a deep depression and moved West-Northwestwards, said a Met office bulletin today.

Typhoon Chanthu drenched Taiwan with heavy rain Sunday as the storm’s center passed the island’s east coast heading for Shanghai.

At least five districts in the country are facing erosion as river water started receding there, causing immense suffering to people.

A wildfire has forced the evacuation of nearly 800 people from around the southern Spanish resort of Estepona, local authorities said on Thursday.

A collective effort is required from ASEAN and other climate-vulnerable countries to ensure that governments meet their obligations under the Paris Climate Agreement, said Malaysian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Haznah Md Hashim.

As the water level of Jamuna river dropped below the danger mark recently, flood water is slowly receding in Sirajganj.

The road connecting Bagerhat’s Morrelganj ferry terminal to the main road has been flooded.

A powerful earthquake struck southwestern Mexico near the beach resort of Acapulco on Tuesday night, killing at least one man who was crushed by a falling post, and causing rock falls and damaging buildings, authorities said.

Tidal surge has marooned nearly five thousand families of 100 villages under six upazilas of Patuakhali.

Maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox's Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to keep hoisted local cautionary signal number three as a low pressure area has formed over the northwest Bay and adjoining areas of Bangladesh.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has called upon major carbon emitting countries to rehabilitate "climate migrants" -- displaced from their homes and jobs due to climate change.

The flood situation has improved in the northern region of the country as the water level in the rivers started receding there, but districts surrounding Dhaka reported the opposite.

After 20 days of continuous rise, the Jamuna river’s water level has begun to drop.