To deal with challenging climates, people have been living in caves for thousands of years.

The profit model of business has ignored climate change for too long.

A thorough and strategic approach is required to defend against the recurrent floods and climatic disasters Bangladesh faces.

Protests by climate activists are anything but terrorism.

Last month the PM Sheikh Hasina appointed Saber Hossain Chowdhury, member of parliament, as her climate envoy.

“The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived.”

Why did so many people die in India this summer where the temperature was eight degrees less than that at Death Valley in the US?

El Nino, La Nina, wildfire, floods, heatwaves – all these terms have been plastered on every news source, both digital and print for the past few years. It seems that the detrimental effects of global climate change have dawned upon us, it is not a phenomenon that “may happen” in the distant future.

Last week, the world witnessed the hottest day in modern history, with the global temperature average rising to a record 17.23 degrees Celsius.

Did we really “rise to the climate challenge?”

This year, the whole of Bangladesh is experiencing unprecedented heat waves. The intense heat has reached a point where opening the windows makes the situation worse instead of bringing in relief in the form of a soothing breeze. Millions around the country, especially the lower middle class, day labourers, farmers, and people who work outside are suffering greatly.

There is an element of the unexpected in the twinning of fiction and ecology. A sense of unease of sorts exists in the pairing together of fiction, a form of narrative that is untrue, with the imminent ecological disaster, an environmental inevitability that is true.

We must rethink how cities are planned, designed, and administered to combat the adverse effects of both the heat island problem and climate change.

We need to rapidly find ways to deal with heat stress.

Excessive concentration of methane in Dhaka demands proper scrutiny

Sea level rise, flash floods, and heat waves are the direct consequences of glacier melting.

Deciduous trees play an essential role in countering the urban heat island effect.

While commitment is the first step, finance is the most important means for implementation of climate commitments. But in this case, there are huge gaps, as pledges remain unfulfilled.

Heavy snowfall und subzero temperatures have wreaked havoc on the United States this holiday season. Deutsche Welle takes a closer look at how this and other types of extreme weather link back to climate change.

The developing countries are united in their demand for the establishment of the Sharm El Sheikh Finance Facility for Loss and Damage (SSFFLD) at the end of the climate conference later this week.