State of the Climate in Asia 2024
<p>The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing
Climate Change
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Climate logjam
After wrecking the climate talks in the Hague, the US led coalition refuses to participate in further negotiations in Oslo
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Will he beat around the bush?
He may not have a clean environmental track record. But as president, George W Bush will have to tread carefully
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The state of our rivers
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
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Ice in Greenland, Antarctics fast melting away
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
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Proposed Ganges barrage to benefit neighbours, says PM
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
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Dhaka, Delhi devising ways to fight floods
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
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Politics of environment
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
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Scientists discover one enzyme in peat bogs prevents massive CO2 emissions, and that global warming would have a further serious effect.
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
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Nasaka's NAF river adventure
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
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Teesta turns into dried up canal this winter
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