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 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on Wednesday accorded ActionAid Bangladesh the ‘Lighthouse Initiatives 2013′ award for its success in empowering rural women to facilitate
A mild earthquake shook up parts of Dhaka, Sylhet and Bangladesh’s north-east on Wednesday, reports bdnews24.com. According to the US Geological Survey, it measured 5.4 on the Richter scale and it happened
Green activists at a seminar in the capital on Tuesday stressed the urgency of creating new leadership with scientific perspective to implement the climate change strategies announced by the government,
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Tuesday approved a project aiming at developing the socio-economic condition of the People of Rangpur Division through rural infrastructural
Dhaka had recently experienced rapid conversion of its motor vehicle fleet to run on compressed natural gas (CNG). This paper quantifies ex-post the air quality and climate benefits of the CNG conversion
Bangladesh became the first country in South Asia to approve commercial cultivation of transgenic Bt brinjal. National Committee on Biosafety (NCB), the highest regulatory body for GM crops in Bangladesh,
A consortium of Indian environmental activists has expressed fears that genetically modified brinjal, not yet approved for cultivation in India, may slip into the country from Bangladesh where it is under
Nearly one in four people on earth live in the countries that border the Bay of Bengal. The region is strategically vital to Asia’s rising powers. Its low-lying littoral — including coastal regions of
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved US$ 250 million assistance to a project of Dhaka WASA to bring 50 crore litres of water per day from Meghna River to reduce its dependency on groundwater,
The cabinet on Monday approved in principle a draft bill proposing imprisonment for 10 years and a fine of Tk five lakh as the maximum punishment for illegal possession of formalin. The draft Formalin