Mizan Hossain fell 10 metres (33-foot) from the top of a ship he was cutting up on Chittagong beach in Bangladesh -- where ...

Bangladesh is at the forefront of the world’s climate crisis, with cyclones and floods becoming more frequent and powerful, according to scientists. Mangroves are trees that grow mainly in ...

In the worst-case scenario, in which sea levels rise by more than six feet this century, Bangladesh alone stands to lose some 800 square miles of mangroves in the Sundarbans. The best-case ...

Notobor Malo plants mangroves next to his home every year to halt erosion by the rising sea. Some saplings die, but some survive to protect his riverside home in Mathurapur, a village in the Satkhira ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Dhaka (AFP) – Conservationists in Bangladesh said Tuesday that tourists dropping rubbish in the world's largest mangrove forest had seriously damaged the ecosystem, forcing the imposition of a ...

This marks a turning point, with mangroves protecting 61 percent more people and safeguarding 109 percent more capital assets from floods in 2020 compared to a decade earlier. Countries like Vietnam, ...

Shocking environmental crime in Bangladesh as 26 people face charges for destroying vital mangrove forests to make way for shrimp and salt farms. Officials from the ruling Awami League party are ...

Conservationists in Bangladesh said Tuesday that tourists dropping rubbish in the world’s largest mangrove forest had seriously damaged the ecosystem, forcing the imposition of a single-use ...

DHAKA: Bangladeshi police have charged 26 people for destroying a swath of mangrove forest that protects the low-lying nation from storm surge waters exacerbated by climate change, environmental ...