This year, farmers have cultivated paddy on about 9,63,000 hectares of land, but the crops have yet to reach the flowering stage ...

In a landmark public health initiative, Bangladesh launched a nationwide Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine (TCV) campaign in October ...

He urged the government to take effective initiatives to revive rivers in the interest of protecting the country ...

Dhaka, March 16 -- e-Islami Ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman on Monday welcomed the canal excavation initiative taken by Prime Minister Tarique Rahman.

Bangladesh’s low-lying terrain combined with the crisscrossed river network, which is cause for recurring floods, tidal ...

Nairobi was hit by another wave of heavy rains on Saturday night, barely a week after deadly floods claimed lives and ...

New satellite analysis by the European Space Agency (ESA) shows significant landscape changes around Dhaka over the past nine years, highlighting rapid urban expansion and visible shifts in ...

Every year, millions of Bangladeshis face devastating floods that threaten livelihoods, food security and long-term development. While local adaptation efforts are important, large-scale mitigation ...

Internationally, World Health Organization data indicates that more than 2 billion people lack safely managed drinking water, with waterborne diseases claiming around 1.4 million lives annually. In ...

Steve Turton has previously received funding from the Australian and Queensland governments. On average, Australia’s driest town, Oodnadatta, gets just 172mm of rain a year. But the small town in ...

Researchers from the University of British Columbia argue that a widely used method to understand and predict flood risk has led scientists to miscalculate how forests can prevent major flooding. The ...

'Atmospheric river' brings new downpours to northern Portugal after storms Aguieira dam near Coimbra at risk of overflowing Prime minister oversees emergency response in storm-hit Coimbra COIMBRA, ...