Climate crisis

Climate crisis

A normal El Niño raises sea surface temperatures in the central Pacific by about 0.5°C while a super El Niño surges 2°C or more above the long-term average. Photo: TBS

How a Super El Niño could compound Bangladesh’s climate crisis

A ‘Super El Niño’ is not a single hazard. It can become a multi-front shock involving heat, drought, flood, disease, fisheries, agriculture and food security simultaneously, making it a test of...

El Niño-driven drought leaves rice fields cracked and dry in West Java, Indonesia. Photo: DW

How climate change and food insecurity could fuel conflicts

A drone view shows a harvester working in a soybean plantation in San Andres de Giles, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 12 May 2025. Photo:Reuters.

How will Latin America's super El Niño affect the top food-exporting region?

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Spanish firefighters battle new blaze front as 15,000 evacuated

A collage shows informal workers in Dhaka, including rickshaw pullers Salamat and Khaleda and cobbler Moni Rishi, whose livelihoods are increasingly affected by extreme heat and rising temperatures. Photo: Tashahud Ahamed Rafim/TBS

Beneath burning sky: Everyone feels heat, but informal workers pay highest price

Environment, Forest and Climate Change Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan spoke at a ceremony held by the Embassy of Switzerland in the capital today. Photo: PID

Global unity, solidarity essential to address climate crisis: Rizwana

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Ancient climate crisis offers warning on modern ocean acidification: study

Trump 2.0: What it means for the global climate fight

Trump 2.0: What it means for the global climate fight

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Climate change is making temperatures deadlier, food less reliable, experts warn

The Boeing logo is seen on the side of a Boeing 737 MAX at the Farnborough International Airshow, in Farnborough, Britain, July 20, 2022. Photo: REUTERS/Peter Cziborra/File Photo

Boeing hones $15b financing plan to weather crises, sources say

Prof Patrick V Verkooijen, CEO of the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA). Sketch: TBS

Climate funding sees gap between promises and reality

A weather map measuring temperatures shows the impact of heatwaves across South Asia on 21 April. Orange and dark orange indicate a range from 30 to 40 degree Celsius. PHOTO: WINDY.COM

Asia burning: From El nino 'frying pan' to climate change 'fire'

Representational image. Photo: Syed Zakir Hossain

How climate change will reshape future Bangladesh