Climate change impacts in Bangladesh
With the Himalayas to the north and the Bay of Bengal to the south, Bangladesh sits on one of the world’s largest and most densely populated deltas, where the Jamuna, Padma and Meghna rivers converge.
With the Himalayas to the north and the Bay of Bengal to the south, Bangladesh sits on one of the world’s largest and most densely populated deltas, where the Jamuna, Padma and Meghna rivers converge.
The health and agriculture ministers assured commitment to strengthen ‘one health’ approach in Bhutan and in the region at the South Asia regional ‘one health’ symposium that ended yesterday in Paro.
Conventional fluorescent and sodium street lights in eight city corporations are going to be replaced by energy-saving light emitting diode (LED) lamps, some to be run by solar power, saving 10 megawatts
'DWASA had already started work on a plan to capture surface water for re-distribution' says A Khan Managing Director of the Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (DWASA) Taqsem A Khan said DWASA
Over 1.5m people in five upazilas of Chapainawabganj in Rajshahi region are at risk of arsenic poisoning due to contaminated tube well waters. The people of Volahat upazila, bordering the Indian state
The Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority has taken a plan to manage 70 per cent of its supply water from the surface sources by 2021. Managing director of the service provider Taqsem A Khan on Wednesday
The installation of water supply line at Dakkhin Surma in Sylhet city began on Tuesday to bring the three wards of this area under drinking water facility coverage. The Sylhet city mayor, Ariful Haque
In 2012, the new HIV infections were 338 while the number of patients with AIDS was 103. Some 65 patients died of AIDS last year. With the latest figure, the government recorded people living with HIV
This paper first looks at why, how, where and when does migration become an effective adaptation strategy. Then it gives a snapshot of the changing migration patterns in Bangladesh. It examines how policies
The Ganges Basin is a part of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) River Basin and is one of the most populated (600 million) river basins in the world. This study focuses on the Eastern Ganges Basin (EGB)
<p><strong>Bangladesh has approved the commercial cultivation of transgenic Bt brinjal, becoming the first country in South Asia to cultivate the genetically modified food crop. Read more in this November 2013 edition of the Monthly Bangladesh State of the Environment Report published by the South Asia Environment Portal. Read and Share.</strong></p>