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Around one million people have been evacuated from their homes and at least 16 people were killed as a cyclone hits the coastal districts of Bangladesh
Officials also advised nearly 33,000 Rohingya refugees, moved from camps to a flood-prone island in the Bay of Bengal, to stay indoors.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said. "They don't act. They can talk but they don't act," she said on a visit to New York for the United Nations General Assembly.
US climate envoy John Kerry will travel to the UAE, India and Bangladesh ahead of next month's climate summit hosted by Washington.
Weather-related disasters have surged over the past 50 years, but death tolls reduced due to early warning systems, according to the United Nations' World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Statues memorialising individuals that brutally colonised and subjugated India stand tall in Britain even as India celebrates 74 years since it became a Republic.
A spectacle of the subaltern, Tasweer Photo Festival Qatar is giving face and space to the world's forgotten. With exhibits spanning across Africa and Asia, the festival is helping give a new lease of life to post-oil Qatar's creative industries.
The impact of climate change 'disproportionally' affected poor farming, fishing and other communities mainly relying on the extraction of natural resources for their livelihoods, a UN report said.
As part of the Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding, a conference was held highlighting the research of Urdu-Arabic translators and researchers who are passionate about reviving a rich shared heritage.
With this years Jameel Prize adjudicated on making a political statement or commemorating a loved one through Islamic traditions, °®Âþµº speaks with the finalists about their creative vision and what poetry to politics means to them.