Climate change may have "huge impact" on China, reducing crop yields, harming the environment, warns country's top weather scientist

Climate top weather scientist have warned that change could have a "huge impact" on China, reducing crop yields and harming the environment

Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean falls to the lowest recorded level for the winter season, according to US scientists

Solar Impulse is on its way from Varanasi in India to Mandalay in Myanmar (Burma) and it will fly over Bangladesh this evening on way to Myanmar

The Australian government is to legislate permanent ban on the dumping of capital dredge spoil on the Great Barrier Reef

There is further, compelling evidence that Ganymede - the largest moon in the Solar System - has an ocean of water beneath its icy crust.

AT least 67 percent of the country's 8,500 brick kilns are running without the permission of the Department of Environment, according to the environment group, Poribesh Bachao Andolon (Poba). Of these, more than 1,900 kilns use wood to burn bricks, a practice which is a punishable offence as per our environmental laws. These statistics are highly alarming, given that unauthorised brick kilns are responsible for causing irreversible damage to the environment and posing serious health hazards to people working and living in nearby areas.

The tiny hut at the edge of the sea is barely large enough for Bokul Mondol and his family. The water took everything else from them, and one day it may take this, too.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina handed over the award to Mahfuz Anam