Large teak tree felled and stolen from Lawachara National Park
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Environment
Wildfires, heatwaves endanger air quality, health: UN
7 September 2026
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Environment
Star Interactive / Rivers erase land 5 times the size of Dhaka in 5 decades
6 September 2026
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Environment
'The flood is coming': How a Nepal principal saved 900 students
6 September 2026
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World
Nepali woman rescued alive from buried home 10 days after flood
5 September 2026
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World
Three floods in two months, and no time to recover
5 September 2026
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Natural Disaster
Rain likely across much of Bangladesh over next 24 hours
5 September 2026
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Weather
Malaysia declares haze emergency in Sarawak state on Borneo
4 September 2026
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Climate crisis
UN appeals for $50 million for Nepal flood victims
4 September 2026
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Climate crisis
Nepal flood losses estimated at $2.56 billion
4 September 2026
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Natural Disaster
Climate Change: Bangladesh seeks finance, tech transfer to vulnerable countries
Bangladesh Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Masud Bin Momen has called for providing financial resources and ensuring technology transfer to the vulnerable countries, including Bangladesh, to face the threats posed by climate change and related disasters.
26 January 2019
Coca-Cola, Pepsi tout plastic recycling in rare joint appearance
The bosses of Coca-Cola and Pepsi promise "huge progress" shall be made by 2030 to reduce plastic waste, which contaminates humans, wildlife, and oceans.
26 January 2019
Nuclear, climate threats keep Doomsday Clock close to apocalypse
The Doomsday Clock, created by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists as an indicator of the world’s susceptibility to apocalypse, remains at two minutes to midnight for a second year running in what the scientists called a dangerous “new abnormal.”
25 January 2019
Climate Change: World 'losing the race'
The world is "losing the race" against climate change, UN chief Antonio Guterres warned yesterday, demanding bolder action from governments to arrest runaway warming.
24 January 2019
Unhappiness linked to poor air quality in China
Eye-watering, throat-scratching air pollution is a major driver of big city blues in China, according to a study published that matched social network chatter with fine-particle pollution levels.
22 January 2019
China to step up fight on air pollution
China’s top environmental watchdog has vowed to succeed in air pollution control this year by enhancing the management of diesel-powered trucks while further reducing industrial emissions.
21 January 2019
10 get jail for catching wild birds for sale in Dhaka
A mobile court sends 10 people to jail for different terms for catching wild birds with net and selling them and two others for producing poultry feed with leather wastes from tanneries which were treated with toxic chemicals.
20 January 2019
Many coffee species threatened with extinction
Climate change and deforestation are putting more than half the world's wild coffee species at risk of extinction, including the popular commercial coffees Arabica and Robusta, scientists warn.
17 January 2019
Oceans heat up at faster rate: study
The oceans are warming faster than previously estimated, setting a new temperature record in 2018 in a trend that is damaging marine life, scientists said on Thursday.
11 January 2019
Organic foods perhaps good for you, but bad for environment
Organic food has been on the rise since it came into fashion; vegetables, fruit, grains, dairy and meat grown and processed using non-conventional methods not only tend to carry a hefty price tag, but are usually thought to be of higher quality and better for health, although production of organic food products may not be good for the environment.
26 December 2018
Nations agree global climate pact rules, but seen as weak
Nearly 200 countries overcome political divisions to agree on rules for implementing a landmark global climate deal, but critics say it is not ambitious enough to prevent the dangerous effects of global warming.
16 December 2018
Depression at Bay, maritime ports asked to hoist signal 1
Maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox's Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to keep hoisted local cautionary signal no one as the deep depression over Southeast Bay moved further northwestwards and is likely to intensify further.
15 December 2018
Arctic posts 2nd warmest year on record in 2018
The Arctic had its second-hottest year on record in 2018, part of a warming trend that may be dramatically changing earth’s weather patterns, according to a report released on Tuesday by the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.
12 December 2018
UN climate negotiators sweat over detail and divides
Half-way through talks to breathe life into the Paris climate deal negotiators haggle over how to share the cost of curbing global warming and struggle to bridge deep political divides.
9 December 2018
India, China, US 4th highest carbon dioxide emitters: Study
India, China, the US and the European Union (EU) have been ranked as the world’s top four emitters respectively of carbon dioxide accounting for 58 percent of global emissions in 2017, according to a study.
6 December 2018
Bangladesh 7th most vulnerable
In a new global index, Bangladesh has been ranked seventh among the countries most affected by extreme weather events in 20 years since 1998.
5 December 2018
UN chief urges leaders to inject momentum at 2019 climate summit
The UN secretary-general urges world leaders to join a climate change summit he will host in 2019 to explain how they plan to ratchet up their efforts to reverse worsening global warming that is leading to a "very dramatic situation".
5 December 2018
Tackle 'greatest threat in thousands of years', David Attenborough urges world leaders
British broadcaster and environmentalist David Attenborough urges world leaders, meeting in Poland to agree ways to limit global warming, to get on and tackle "our greatest threat in thousands of years".
4 December 2018
145 whales die on remote New Zealand beach
Up to 145 pilot whales have died in a mass stranding on a remote part of a small New Zealand island, authorities say.
26 November 2018
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon reaches decade high
The destruction of Brazil's Amazon rainforest reached its highest level in a decade this year, government data shows, driven by illegal logging and the encroachment of agriculture on the jungle.
24 November 2018