State of the climate in Asia 2023
Asia remained the world’s most disaster-hit region from weather, climate and water-related hazards in 2023. Floods and storms caused the highest number of reported casualties and economic losses, whilst
Asia remained the world’s most disaster-hit region from weather, climate and water-related hazards in 2023. Floods and storms caused the highest number of reported casualties and economic losses, whilst
He may not have a clean environmental track record. But as president, George W Bush will have to tread carefully
Given the chaotic processes that characterise the turbulent flows of Bangladesh's rivers channel shifts are inevitable. During work on the Jamuna Bridge, vertical excavations in the bed of Jamuna of
Global warming and climatic change and the role of man in exacerbating the ecological decline, apart from the provocation from other environmental stresses is what that State of the World 2001, (SOW
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said the construction of the proposed Ganges barrage would benefit not only Bangladesh but also all the neighbouring countries including
Bangladesh and India began talks in Dhaka for devising modalities of further cooperation economic use of the waters of common rivers and fighting floods that deluged both the countries in late last
The earth has been getting warmer at a rate as high as 0.2 degrees celsius per deace during the last 25 years and a result unexpected climate changes have already started coming in. More than half of
The activity of a single enzyme in peat bogs from Scotland to Siberia is the only thing preventing a massive release of carbon dioxide, but global warming causing peat bogs to dry out would increase
Bangladesh's river-based ethology, by dint of our geo-political position, is perpetually at the mercy of our neighbours. Although India in particular, with which Bangladesh shares 54 of the 57 common
Being massively silted on the bed, the river Teesta has turned into a dried up canal at the present winter season causing serious threat to ecology as well as irrigation in cultivable land in
Droughts caused by global warming could set off a biochemical process in northern soils that would release large amounts of carbon dioxide into the air and possibly speed changes in the climate,