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.
Bangladesh
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Habiganj forest fire burns down 38,000 trees
Some 38,000 trees have been burned down in a devastating fire that broke at a reserve forest at Jagdishpur in Madhabpur upazila on Saturday. Forest department employees with the help of locals doused the
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Unplanned embankment poses threat to river
The ongoing construction of an embankment on the Sandhya river in Barishal has sparked outrage among locals who believe the structure will damage the river crucial to their livelihoods. Locals in Banaripara
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As winter bites, air pollution in India and Pakistan gets ‘crazy bad’
Since the start of the year, air pollution in major cities in India and Pakistan has reached levels well beyond what is considered hazardous to human health. On 2 January, the air pollution in Lahore reached
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15,000 hectares of land brought under wheat cultivation in Panchagarh
A total of 15,000 hectares of land have been brought under wheat cultivation this season in the district with a production target of 62,000 metric tonnes of wheat. The Department of Agriculture Extension
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Pollution knows no borders
<p>Toxic, disease-causing pollution travels the globe and crosses national borders in many guises, both visible and invisible. Air pollution from coal-fired power plants, vehicle emissions, and factories
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Creating an enabling environment for public–private partnerships in waste-to-energy projects
This working paper reviews the enabling environment for waste-to-energy in the People’s Republic of China, Bangladesh, India, and the Philippines.As Asia and the Pacific continues to experience rapid urbanization
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Varietal improvement options for higher rice productivity in salt affected areas using crop modelling
<p>The rice model ORYZA v3 has been recently improved to account for salt stress effect on rice crop growth and yield. <a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/rice_productivity_salt_affected.pdf"
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Sustainable Development Goals: Bangladesh progress report 2018
The progress report on SDGs implementation in Bangladesh has been prepared following a methodological framework. This involves a thorough understanding of the 7th Five Year Plan document, and the documents
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Climate change induced salinity intrusion and its implications for agriculture
An estimated 1.06 million hectare of arable land in Bangladesh and 6.7 million hectares in India is affected by salinity. Salinity intrusion adversely affects the livelihoods of farmers, especially rice
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Benefit sharing opportunities in the Meghna Basin: profile and preliminary scoping study, Bangladesh and India
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) recently launched a report and preliminary study on benefit sharing opportunities in the Meghna Basin for Bangladesh and India. Governance based