A female bottlenose dolphin has died at a Japanese aquarium only weeks after breaking a national record of more than four decades in captivity, an official says.

The biggest problem for sustainable development in Bangladesh now is climate change, Water Resources Minister Anisul Islam Mahmud says.

Extreme weather caused some $129 billion (111 billion euros) in economic losses last year, says a report that warned the bill will keep climbing as climate change boosts droughts, storms and floods.

The concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere hits a new high, the UN says, warning that drastic action is needed to achieve targets set by the Paris climate agreement.

Green activists ask the authorities concerned to take monitoring initiatives to check dust pollution in Dhaka city as its air quality is set to fall with the onset of dry season.

New Delhi is shrouded in a thick toxic haze after a night of frenzied Diwali fireworks send the air quality plummeting despite a ban on sale of fireworks aimed at thwarting a repeat of an 'airpocalypse'.

Pollution claims the lives of nine million people in 2015, one in every six deaths that year, according to a report.

Mass starvation has wiped out thousands of penguin chicks in Antarctica, with unusually thick sea ice forcing their parents to forage further for food in what conservationists call a "catastrophic breeding failure".

South Africa and Chad sign an agreement that will see the re-introduction next year of critically endangered black rhino to the central African country.

Sydney and Melbourne could regularly face 50 degree Celsius (122F) days within 25 years even if Australia meets its Paris global warming targets, a new study warns.

The wildlife department releases a fishing cat in Lawachhara National Park in Kamalganj upazila of Moulvibazar, a day after it was rescued from Rajnagar upazila of the district.

Senior disaster management officials from seven countries of South and South East Asia, including Bangladesh, India and Myanmar, are to gather here to conduct a joint exercise to test their readiness for a united response to major natural disasters in a region prone to cyclones, flood, drought and earthquake.

Bangladesh boasts as the world’s number two garment exporter. Every third European has a t-shirt made in Bangladesh on his back. Every fifth American wears jeans manufactured in Bangladesh. But this is not a story of how many million pieces we export. This is a story of the invisible price we pay every time a jeans rolls out of a factory in Bangladesh. The western buyers little know how much water, that precious resource, was used to wash and dye his shirt. The figures are mind boggling.

The United States has attended a meeting of ministers from more than 30 of the nations that signed the Paris climate-change agreement, though the White House issued a statement saying it will stick with plans to pull out of the deal.

The world's oldest captive giant panda has died at the ripe old age of 37 -- more than 100 in human years -- her handlers in China say.

Scientists say the devastating intensity of hurricanes such as Harvey is consistent with global warming trends -- rising seas, warming oceans, hotter air -- and warn of "bigger and stronger" storms to come.

Scientists freely acknowledge they don't know everything about how global warming affects hurricanes, but what they do know is enough to keep them up at night.

The High Court directs the government to take necessary steps in 48 hours to stop the use of pneumatic horns in vehicles in Dhaka city to prevent sound pollution. The court asked the government to confiscate the instruments used for hydraulic horns in next seven days.

Human rights activist Sultana Kamal alleges that lives of people who live in and around the Sundarbans, are being jeopardised due to unplanned development and industrial works near the forest.

Venezuela authorities investigate the theft of animals from a zoo in western state of Zulia that were likely snatched to be eaten, a further sign of hunger in a country struggling with chronic food shortages.