As we start 2017 we have many encouraging numbers to be proud of. The country has been sustaining GDP growth at 6.3 percent for the last five years. Per capita income (USD 1,314) is more than twice of that of 2008. Less than 13 percent of us are now extreme poor,

If we say yes to the Sundarbans, then we must say no to the commercial projects harmful for its survival. Whether it is a power plant or any other commercial activity, whether it is foreign investment (FDI) or local investment, whether it is investment from India,

Bangladesh is a deltaic land created and flushed by numerous rivers. It had 1400 to 1500 rivers in the 11th century, which was reduced to 7 to 8 hundred due to various natural anthropogenic factors over time.

Perhaps the most controversial issue in the global climate change literature is migration. During the 1990s and early 2000s, in climate change discourse, migration was presented as a threat.

For an issue advocate, an activist or an opportunist, answers to these questions may range from an overwhelming yes to an emphatic no. A pragmatist will most likely suggest: it depends!

Seas have always been instrumental in defining the destiny of the world, be it as means of transportation or as trade routes or as hub of resources. They have also played a significant role in bringing people closer, breaking barriers down cultures and religions;

Climate change and biodiversity are intricately intertwined. Looking a hundred years into the future, climate change alone will threaten the existence of the major terrestrial and aquatic species of our country.

Today Bangladesh stands at a vital crossroads in its development path. Having averaged a 6 percent economic growth in the past decade, the country attained lower-middle income country status in 2015 and achieved five out of eight Millennium Development Goals by the same year.

Climate finance has been at the core of negotiations under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) for over two decades.

Forests provide timber, fuel and essential ecosystem services in addition to carbon storage and delivery of oxygen to the atmosphere.

With a population of about 152 million, Bangladesh has been identified as the highest ranking disaster prone countries and the fifth ranking in the risk index (2012) in the world.

The High Court summons the deputy commissioner of Narayanganj to appear before it on February 22 to explain the actual situation of a land at Sonargaon upazila where allegedly earth filling is going on despite the Supreme Court’s restriction.

Whale rescuers are cautiously optimistic that the current wave of mass beachings in New Zealand is over, after hundreds of the creatures died after being stranded ashore.

Whale lovers in New Zealand finally get some good news after more than 200 stranded whales managed to refloat themselves overnight and swim away, while volunteers managed to save another 17 whales at high tide.

Rescuers defy a shark threat to form a human chain in a New Zealand bay in a bid to keep another 200 whales from becoming stranded a day after hundreds died in a mass beaching.

A team of coast guard recover at least 120kgs of venison in a drive from Patharghata upazila in Barguna district.

Every year the red crabs of Christmas Island in Australia migrate to the beach to lay eggs. And after the eggs hatch this is what you get.

A tiger is shot dead after a man who climbed a fence into the tiger enclosure to avoid paying for a ticket was mauled to death at a zoo in eastern China.

The extent of ice loss at the top of the world, as seen by satellites, has been widely documented and is the Arctic ice cap’s shrinkage is often expressed in terms of area.

For the past few years, the winter chapter of Bangladesh is shrinking – arriving late and living short, what experts suspect is for climate-related changes and abuse of natural resources.