Environmentalists and local residents in Habiganj held a daylong bicycle rally and street meeting today, demanding climate ...

Over the past two decades, 185 extreme weather events have caused 11,450 deaths and resulted in economic losses amounting to ...

St. Joseph's Church and five adjacent villages at Ranikhong in Netrokona district face grave risks due to erosion by Someshwari river, a transboundary river that flows from the neighboring Indian ...

Hurricane Helene lasted only a few days in September 2024, but it altered the landscape of the Southeastern U.S. in profound ...

It's good news that the government is taking action. Man hit with severe penalty after officials uncover destructive activity ...

As floods and erosion consume the river islands of Bangladesh, thousands are getting displaced With nowhere to go, most char residents are resettling in city slums. Rafiqul Islam Montu, IndiaSpend ...

KURIGRAM, Bangladesh (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Piyara Begum once had a happy life in Garuhara village by the Brahmaputra River in northern Bangladesh, but worsening erosion of the river banks ...

In Bangladesh, river erosion tends to occur in September, October and November, according to Malik. CEGIS marked 17 areas this season at higher risk than other areas of being devoured by the major ...

Rising sea levels and coastal erosion could cause Bangladesh to lose 17% of its land surface and 30% of its food production by 2050, according to a 2019 International Monetary Fund report, opens ...

A family who lived close to the Padma River move to higher ground as the river bank was about disintegrate due to soil erosion, in Munshiganj in Bangladesh in August 2021. Credit: Reuters.

Demand from Bangladesh’s construction industry for sand has led to a boom in unregulated and illegal mining from rivers, activists say. An estimated 60-70% of the mined sand in the country is ...