Climate science: Bad news gets worse

As UN negotiators meet in Bonn to thrash out rules for implementing the climate-rescue Paris Agreement, the stakes have never been higher.
6 May 2017

700 people worked 70 days to revive an Indian ‘dead’ river

Kuttemperoor river, after being subjected to years of severe pollution and illegal sand mining, had almost vanished into obscurity until last year.
5 May 2017

Watch these crabs make yearly journey from forest to sea in Cuba

Cuba's Bay of Pigs has been invaded again, this time not by US-backed anti-Castro forces, but by millions of red, yellow and black landcrabs.
3 May 2017

Urban farming flourishes in New York

The urban farm craze is finding fertile ground in New York, where 10 young entrepreneurs are learning to grow greens and herbs without soil, bathed in an indoor, psychedelic light.
2 May 2017

Endangered rhino joins dating app Tinder

Like many guys using the Tinder dating app, Sudan loves the outdoors and travels widely. The catch: he's the world's last male white northern rhino and desperately needs to mate.
26 April 2017

‘50 tonnes fish died in Sunamganj haors so far’

As dead fishes and ducks continue to surface in the haors of Sunamganj, a fisheries department official says that 50 tonnes of fish have died so far.
22 April 2017

Ocean garbage can power homes

Mr Trash Wheel is a solar and water powered trash cleaner that keeps garbage from reaching the ocean and then converts it to energy, according to CNN.
17 April 2017

G7 energy ministers fail to agree statement on climate change: Italy

G7 energy ministers fail to reach agreement on a joint statement on climate change after the United States express reservations, an Italian minister says.
10 April 2017

'Zero recovery' for corals in back-to-back Australia bleaching

Coral bleached for two consecutive years at Australia's Great Barrier Reef has "zero prospect" of recovery, scientists warned Monday, as they confirmed the site has again been hit by warming sea temperatures.
10 April 2017

Nepal's rhinos on road to recovery with cross-country move

All hell breaks loose as the one-horned rhino steps out of the crate, the powerful male charging elephant-mounted mahouts relocating him to a new home in Nepal's far west in the hope of shoring up the vulnerable species.
10 April 2017

Utility services at Hazaribagh tanneries being cut off

In compliance with a High Court order, Department of Environment (DoE) today started its drive to cut off electricity and gas connections to the tanneries at Hazaribagh in Dhaka.
8 April 2017

'selfie monkey' threatened for its meat

The crested black macaque rises to fame when one of the monkeys snapped grinning selfies and becomes embroiled in a US court battle -- but the tussle over copyright is the least of the rare animal's worries.
3 April 2017

IPU meeting will be carbon neutral

Some 700 parliamentarians from around the globe are flying into Dhaka to participate in the Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) meeting and that would mean a lot of carbon footprint. But organisers have vowed to make annual assembly a carbon neutral one.
1 April 2017

SC fixes Apr 9 for passing order on tannery owners’ plea

The Supreme Court fixes April 9 for passing an order on a petition filed by tannery owners seeking a stay on a High Court order that asked 154 tannery owners to pay Tk 30.85 crore to the government fund.
30 March 2017

Trump moves to roll back Obama climate measures

President Donald Trump declared the end of a "war on coal" Tuesday, as he moved to curb rules that underpin American emissions targets and a major global climate accord.
29 March 2017

Lights go out around the world for 10th Earth Hour

The lights are being switched off around the world at 8:30 pm, to mark the 10th annual Earth Hour, and to draw attention to climate change.
26 March 2017

Thailand's coin-eating turtle dies of blood poisoning

A 25-year-old sea turtle in Thailand who swallowed nearly a thousand coins tossed by tourists seeking good luck died Tuesday, two weeks after having surgery to remove the coins from its stomach.
21 March 2017

2017 already marked by climate extremes: UN

Extreme weather and climate conditions, including Arctic "heatwaves", are continuing this year, after 2016 topped the global temperature charts and saw shrinking sea ice and surging sea levels.
21 March 2017

After New Zealand, India declares Ganga, Jamuna ‘living entity’

In a landmark ruling, a High Court in India has given the river Ganges and the Jamuna the status of the "first living entity of India".
21 March 2017

G20 financial leaders acquiesce to US, drop free trade pledge

Financial leaders of the world's biggest economies dropped a pledge to keep global trade free and open, acquiescing to an increasingly protectionist United States after a two-day meeting failed to yield a compromise.
19 March 2017