A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the west coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra island on Wednesday, sending terrified residents fleeing from homes and buildings.

Clean Air and Sustainable Environment project’s six new air-quality monitoring stations are yet to start functioning to provide and keep the records of the pollution levels, officials.

The European Union is giving €540 thousand to the international agencies running relief operations in Cox’s Bazar and Bandarban districts, helping the flood victims.

As many as 20 million people of the country would be displaced if sea level rises to 1.5 metres owing to climate change.

Torrential rains in mountainous southwest China triggered a mudslide that left about 40 workers building a hydroelectric dam missing on Thursday, state media reported.

After flash floods in Chittagong, Sylhet, Bandarban and Cox’s Bazar, the government now fears similar floods in the capital as well.

The death toll from flooding and downpour that caused landslide, wall collapse, lightning strike and drowning till Wednesday evening reached 98.

The government has approved 87 projects involving over Tk 1025 crore to combat climate change impacts.

Bangladesh suffers a staggering loss in economic productivity each year due to malnutrition, according to a recent study.

Two people were killed in landslide and another by drowning in two places and thousands got marooned across the country on Monday because of heavy rainfall and onrush of water from the hilly region