Flood / Monsoon flood soon likely

2022-06-14T20:17+0200newagebd (en)

Some upstream areas in India have been put on high alert with extreme rainfall forecast for the next three days, raising fear of monsoon flooding downstream in Bangladesh . Until Tuesday, many bordering areas and all chars in northern and north-eastern districts witnessed flash flooding with some....

Flood / Flood hits road communication in northeast

2022-06-13T19:52+0200newagebd (en)

Two more northeastern rivers overflowed their danger levels on Monday, disrupting the road communications between Sunamganj district and two of its upazilas Tahirpur and Bishwambarpur. With the new ones, three rivers Surma, Jadukata and Someswari - are now flowing above their danger levels in....

Dhaka must talk cross-border river issues boldly with Delhi

2022-06-12T20:09+0200newagebd (en)

WATER from the upstream, as India is reported to have kept all the floodgates of the Gojaldoba Barrage open since afternoon on June 9 after a heavy rainfall, has flooded all the 654 chars, or sand bars, in the Rangpur division and caused the River Teesta to swell above the danger mark at the Kaunia point on June 12.

BDRCS delegation pays courtesy call on President

2022-06-12T17:30+0200bssnews (en)

DHAKA, June 12, 2022 (BSS) - A delegation of Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) paid a courtesy call on President M Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban here this evening. Chairman of BDRCS, a part of the world's largest humanitarian non-governmental organization of the International Red Cross and Red....

The British towns at risk of being wiped from the map forever by rising seas and coastal erosion

2022-06-07T19:18+0200businesstelegraph (en)

Global sea levels could rise as much as 10ft (3 metres) if the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica collapses. Sea level rises threaten cities from Shanghai to London, to low-lying swathes of Florida or Bangladesh , and to entire nations such as the Maldives. In the UK, for instance, a rise of 6.

Some British coastal communities condemned to be swallowed by the sea because of climate change

2022-06-07T02:23+0200newsnow-co-uk (en)

Some British coastal communities will "inevitably" be forced from their homes as climate change eats away at their shores, the head of England's Environment Agency (EA) will warn today. EA chief executive Sir James Bevan is expected to say rising sea levels - fuelled by warmer oceans and melting ice....

Climate change causing Britain to shrink with some coastal communities condemned to be swallowed by the sea

2022-06-07T01:50+0200coastfm (en)

Some British coastal communities will "inevitably" be forced from their homes as climate change eats away at their shores, the head of England's Environment Agency (EA) will warn today. EA chief executive Sir James Bevan is expected to say rising sea levels - fuelled by warmer oceans and melting ice....

Climate change causing Britain to shrink with some coastal communities condemned to be swallowed by the sea

2022-06-07T01:45+0200heart (en)

EA chief executive Sir James Bevan is expected to say rising sea levels - fuelled by warmer oceans and melting ice - will mean "some of our communities - both in this country and around the world - cannot stay where they are". "While we can come back safely and build back better after most river....

Some British coastal communities condemned to be swallowed by the sea because of climate change

2022-06-07T01:33+0200skynews (en)

Some British coastal communities will "inevitably" be forced from their homes as climate change eats away at their shores, the head of England's Environment Agency (EA) will warn today. EA chief executive Sir James Bevan is expected to say rising sea levels - fuelled by warmer oceans and melting ice....

«L’ecologia è sociale»

2022-06-06T08:36+0200vasroma (it)

Da qualche giorno l’ambiente ha un’alleata in più. Nel numero dell’ExtraTerrestre del 21 marzo 2019 la definivamo La donna di un altro pianeta: eclettica, geniale, pluripremiata a livello internazionale, Daniela Ducato possiede un’umanità dalle radici profonde.

Could nature be our best protection from the climate crisis?

2022-06-05T13:38+0200independent-UK (en)

There can be no doubt that the climate crisis is here, right now. In parts of northwest India and Pakistan, temperatures recently reached a record-breaking 51C during heat waves made 100 times more likely by the climate crisis. As a result, hospital admissions for heat-related incidents have increased by a staggering 20 per cent.