Bangladesh is likely to be among the countries that will be the worst affected by climate change. Climate change refers to the changes in climatic elements' behaviour due to natural variability and human activity. In the last few decades, extensive floods, cyclones, tidal surges, tsunamis, drought, riverbank erosion, etc., have attacked our country increasingly frequently.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday emphasised conducting massive afforestation drive across the country to maintain ecological balance to save the country from disastrous impacts of the global climate change.

She made the call while receiving donation for the victims of the recent cyclone Aila, one of a chain of natural calamities blamed on the climate change caused by global warming.

Water accumulated in a Sunderbans village flows into a dam damaged by the Aila. Amit Datta
Calcutta, June 25: The cyclone had swamped their land and blown away their homes. A month on, thousands still live under the sky in Aila-swept Sunderbans.

A month after cyclone Aila hit the state and caused a large-scale devastation to the island hamlets of the Sunderbans, residents of the area are still reeling under a shortage of food and other relief material.

Bangladesh proposed for UN recognition to a new group of Climatically Vulnerable Nations for fast tracking international assistance to them as global climate change is subjecting them to environmental havoc.

Tens of thousands of mobile users in Bangladesh's flood and cyclone-prone areas will now receive advance warning of an impending natural disaster through an alert on their cell phones, a government official says.

This new initiative will alert people on their phones, informing them that they are likely to face flooding or a cyclone. The message would flash automatically on the screen of their mobile phone sets.

New Delhi: The development of a mild cyclonic circulation off the Konkan coast in the Arabian Sea on Tuesday has been giving rise to hopes that the monsoon, which has been subdued for more than two weeks now, was firmly finding strength and was on course for a revival by the end of this week.

There have been several air circulation disturbances in the recent past. Heat waves have scorched Orissa and West Bengal, while cyclonic storms took shape in the Bay of Bengal. Scientists pore over data to explain the unusual weather, writes Archita Bhatta

Relief workers from various organisations are having a harrowing time to reach the Aila-hit victims for distribution of relief due to shortage of boats and ferries.