Heavy rains and flooding have forced thousands of people to evacuate in China's southwestern province of Sichuan, with authorities on Sunday urging citizens across the country to brace for more downpours.

Firefighters struggled to contain an exploding Northern California wildfire under blazing temperatures as another heat wave blanketed the West, prompting an excessive heat warning for inland and desert areas.

Vast areas in the country’s northern and north-western region have been submerged by floodwater, causing immense suffering to thousands of people.

The overall flood situation in Sirajganj and Lalmonirhat worsened yesterday as the water level in the Jamuna and Teesta rivers increased further.

The water level is increasing in Jamuna River and is resulting in inundation of low-lying areas in Sirajganj.

Water flow of Teesta River crossed the danger level at Daoni area in Hatibandha upazila of Lalmonirhat district this afternoon near Teesta barrage inundating riverside areas and homesteads in the low-lying areas.

Two people were killed in lightning strike while fishing in a haor in Companiganj upazila of Sylhet this morning.

An earthquake of 5.2 magnitude was felt around the country including Dhaka, Gaibandha, Bogura and Rajshahi this morning.

Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC) today forecast that water levels of Teesta, Dharla and Dudhkumar rivers in the country’s northern region may rise rapidly in the next 72 hours resulting in situations triggering flash floods at some places there.

Beyond the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change will emerge as an even bigger challenge for newsroom leaders to cover well, across various domains ranging from environmental to political impact, said World Editors Forum (WEF) president Warren Fernandez.

​​​​​​​The Char Kharuya flood shelter on the Dharla shoal of Mughalhat union in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila is under threat due to river erosion and only dumping of geo-bags on an emergency basis could protect it. But the Water Development Board’s executive engineer has said they do not have the funds to do so at the moment.

​​​​​​​Four people were found dead as a huge fire raged for a second day in Cyprus, razing tracts of forest in a blaze one official called the worst on record.

Forty-one mm of rainfall has been recorded in Dhaka since this morning, Abdul Mannan, a meteorologist from the Bangladesh Meteorological Department, told The Daily Star this afternoon.

Hundreds of houses along the Teesta river bank in Lalmonirhat have been flooded as the water level rose by 5 cm in the last 12 hours due to incessant rain and water from the upstream.

Low-lying areas along the river banks of Lalmonirhat and Kurigram were inundated as river water increased due to incessant rainfall and onrush of upstream water.

The potent greenhouse gas methane is spewing out of natural gas infrastructure across the European Union because of leaks and venting, video footage made available to Reuters shows.

Britain's lack of policies to meet net zero emissions by 2050 is jeopardising its chance of meeting the target, the country's climate advisers said in a progress report on Thursday.

USAID has launched a $17 million clean energy project called Bangladesh Advancing Development Growth through Energy (BADGE), aimed at expanding Bangladesh’s access to affordable clean energy and support clean energy entrepreneurship.

The government of Bangladesh has announced it will host the first ever virtual V20 Climate Vulnerables Finance Summit on July 8.

British environmentalist David Attenborough told Group of Seven leaders on Sunday that tackling climate change was now as much a political challenge as it was a scientific one.