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India, the world’s third biggest carbon-emitting country, said Friday it was “confident” it could cut its emissions intensity by 35 percent by 2030 in the run-up to a key conference in Paris later this year. The environment minister Prakash Javadekar announced India’s climate pledges after the government submitted to the UN a new plan for tackling climate change, ahead of the COP21 meeting in November that will seek to forge... »

France said Sunday that it would ramp up foreign assistance, pumping in an extra four billion euros ($4.5 billion) per year starting in 2020. President Francois Hollande, announcing the aid boost at a United Nations summit on development, said the move would bring French aid to 12 billion euros annually. However, he did not specify how the assistance would be divided and whether it would go to fight poverty or... »

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at gala reception here on Sunday evening received the highest environmental accolade “Champions of the Earth” award of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) for her outstanding leadership on the frontline of climate change. UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner handed over the Award to Bangladesh Prime Minister appreciating her as an inspirational leader as she showed the necessity to work for environment protection and climate change.... »

Sky-watchers around the world are in for a treat Sunday night and Monday when the shadow of Earth casts a reddish glow on the moon, the result of rare combination of an eclipse with the closest full moon of the year. The total “supermoon” lunar eclipse, also known as a “blood moon” is one that appears bigger and brighter than usual as it reaches the point in its orbit that... »

Light to moderate rain is likely to occur at many places over the country on the Eid day, Friday. “It is raining in most parts of the country in this monsoon, there may be rain on Eid day, too,” said Director Bangladesh Meteorological Department M Shah ALAM told BSS. The possibility of rainfall will reduce in next three days from this morning, he added.

Man-made global warming is set to produce exceptionally high average temperatures this year and next, boosted by natural weather phenomena such as El Nino, Britain’s top climate and weather body said in a report Monday. “It looks very likely that globally 2014, 2015 and 2016 will all be amongst the very warmest years ever recorded,” Rowan Sutton of the National Centre for Atmospheric Science, which contributed to the report, told... »

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina won the ‘Champions of the Earth’ award of United Nations. The award will be handed over to Sheikh Hasina during the general session of United Nations at New York, reports Prothom Alo. Ehsanul Karim, prime minister’s press secretary, told the Bangla daily today. Sheikh Hasina has been recognised by United Nations for her outstanding contribution towards environmental preservation, added Ehsanul Karim. The Champions of the... »

Rapid population and economic growth, have already consumed the available natural resources. To meet huge demand as well as to provide cheap products plastics has emerged as an alternative source. It has become the most common material since the beginning of the 20th century and modern life is unthinkable without it. The top biggest plastics producer and exporting countries in the world are China, Germany, U.S., Japan and France respectively... »

At least 226 people died and 62 elephants were killed in last 12years and a half in growing incidents of human-elephant conflicts, said forest officials. They as well as wildlife conservationists blamed destruction of elephant habitats as the main cause for the incidents. They said that elephants were being squeezed into smaller habitats due to destruction of forest cover. Increasing use of elephant movement routes and corridors for farming and... »

Met office lowers danger signal as a weakened ‘Komen’ crosses Chittagong coast. Tropical storm ‘Komen’, packing wind speeds of 60-70 kmph, has crossed the Chittagong coast without causing any serious damage and has begun to weaken. It crossed the coast near Sandwip Island in the early hours and was currently over Noakhali and the adjoining areas as a land depression, the Meteorological Department said in a bulletin on Friday. Komen’s... »