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A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck just onshore in Chile in the early hours of Saturday, but no damage was reported and the navy said it did not expect a tsunami. The quake’s epicenter was about 100 km (62 miles) south of the port city of Coquimbo, Chile, the US Geological Survey reported. It struck at 4:32 a.m. (0732 GMT) and woke residents in the capital, Santiago, 300 km to the... »

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) saturday approved a $31 million climate adaptation grant for the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) planned Fiji Urban Water Supply and Wastewater Management Project that will benefit a third of the country’s population of 860,000. The $222 million project is expected to be financed by the grant from GCF, a $67.7 million loan from ADB, and other sources. ‎The GCF grant was among the first group... »

China and France agreed that a deal to tackle climate change expected to be negotiated in Paris should include checks on whether countries were complying with their commitments, they said in a joint statement Monday. Each signatory’s progress should be reviewed every five years, said the statement, to “reinforce mutual confidence and promote efficient implementation”. It was issued as visiting President Francois Hollande met his counterpart Xi Jinping. The conference... »

More than 260 people have died, mostly in Pakistan, after a magnitude-7.5 earthquake hit north-eastern Afghanistan. Tremors from the quake were also felt in northern India and Tajikistan. At least 12 of the victims were Afghan schoolgirls killed in a crush as they tried to get out of their building. The earthquake was centred in the mountainous Hindu Kush region, 76km (45 miles) south of Faizabad, the US Geological Survey... »

A strong earthquake has hit South Asia mainly affecting people living in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Tremors were also felt in the neighbouring countries of India and Tajikistan. It measured 7.5 in terms of how powerful an earthquake is. Buildings shook and were badly damaged in Afghanistan. In Pakistan, people fled shops and homes as the shaking started. More than 150 people are thought to have died because of the quake.... »

Developing nations accused rich ones Thursday of stonewalling on finance in negotiations for a universal climate rescue pact — an issue they said would make or break the entire effort. The G77 bloc of developing nations, representing 80 percent of the world’s population, insists that firm funding commitments from developed nations must make it into the core of the agreement being shaped at talks in Bonn. But negotiators from rich... »

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday urged Canada’s new leadership to play a strong role to help clinch a historic deal on climate change at the upcoming Paris conference. Canadian voters put Justin Trudeau’s Liberals in office in elections on Monday, ending nine years of conservative rule under Stephen Harper. Harper pulled Canada out of the landmark Kyoto Protocol on fighting climate change in 2011 because it did not apply... »

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) today demanded for bringing high carbon emitting countries under legal bindings to disburse their committed fund to less carbon generating but climate change affected countries. “We are urging Bangladesh government to raise the issue of framing an agreement regarding legal binding in climate financing during the upcoming conference in Paris,” TIB Executive Director Dr Iftekharuzzaman told a press conference at its office in Dhanmondi here. United... »

The Forest Department has officially announced that the number of the country’s iconic Royal Bengal Tiger is 106 in Bangladesh territory of the Sundarbans, as per the Tiger Census of 2015. According to the Indian findings, there are 76 tigers in the Sundarbans of India that made the total number of tigers 182 in the largest mangrove forest in the world, shared 60% by Bangladesh and 40% by India. Bangladesh... »

The Bangladesh Sundarbans, a unique mangrove ecosystem of the world and also the largest single mangrove forest of the world along with the Indian part has become the focal point of debate by a group of people within the country and also concern of the some environmental organization outside the country. Biodiversity conservation significance of the Sundarbans ecosystem is unequivocal. It is the only remaining mangrove forest in the world... »