Nepal and Bhutan have jointly proposed a dedicated Himalayan item for the COP31 climate talks, warning that melting glaciers and deadly floods are putting mountain communities — and more than two billion people downstream — at growing risk.
Bangladesh has recorded 418 dengue deaths this year, with October alone accounting for 173, as experts warn the outbreak is unlikely to ease significantly before December.
The ocean absorbs around 30 per cent of human-caused carbon dioxide and 90 per cent of excess heat, but a new UN report warns climate change has already cut its carbon-absorbing capacity by about 6 per cent.
Heat was linked to a record 710,000 deaths in 2023, with more than 70% attributable to human-caused climate change, according to the 2026 Lancet Countdown report, whose authors are calling for climate change to be formally recognised as a global health emergency.
