Climate change talks among some of the world's most polluting nations are continuing for a second day in Rome. The meeting is part of periodic negotiations of the Major Economies Forum, a group created ...

DHAKA (Reuters) - Landslides triggered by heavy rain in southeast Bangladesh buried dozens of houses and killed at least 46 people on Tuesday, officials said. The landslides hit villages in the Cox's Bazar hill and resort district, where officials said they recorded 25 cm of rainfall in 24 hours to ...

At 72, Bangladeshi honey-hunter Mohsan Gazi has seen plenty of bad storms and hard times, but the stoical septuagenarian says nothing came close to Cyclone Aila that struck in May last year. A year after the disaster, Gazi's community of some 500 families still lives in a squalid, makeshift ...

Bangladeshi musician Abdul Sabuj does not own a passport and rarely ventures far from the Dhaka slum he calls home, but thanks to a new vote-donating project, he will have a say in Britain's elections. Ahead of polling day in Britain on Thursday, Sabuj and thousands of others like ...

Bangladeshi musician Abdul Sabuj does not own a passport and rarely ventures far from the Dhaka slum he calls home, but thanks to a new vote-donating project, he will have a say in Britain's elections. Ahead of polling day in Britain on Thursday, Sabuj and thousands of others like ...

Scientists in Bangladesh posed a fresh challenge to the UN's top climate change panel Thursday, saying its doomsday forecasts for the country in the body's landmark 2007 report were overblown. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), already under fire for errors in the 2007 report, had said ...

A tiny island at the centre of a territorial dispute between India and Bangladesh has disappeared beneath the waves due to rising sea levels and erosion, scientists say. The uninhabited outcrop -- called New Moore island by India and South Talpatti by Bangladesh -- was 3.5 kilometres (about two miles) long ...

For nearly 30 years, India and Bangladesh have argued over control of a tiny rock island in the Bay of Bengal. Now rising sea levels have resolved the dispute for them: the island's gone. New ...

DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday urged donors countries to come up quickly with promised funds to help her country limit the effects of climate change. World leaders pledged an initial $10 billion fund at the December climate summit in Copenhagen to help least developed countries (LDCs ...

Bangladesh, one of the nations most vulnerable to global warming, will seek 15 percent of a 30-billion-dollar climate change fund committed at the Copenhagen summit, the environment minister said Tuesday. Bangladesh, with a population of 150 million, makes up around 15 percent of the approximately one billion people estimated to ...