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.
A writ petition has been filed with High Court (HC) seeking its directive to restrain the government from giving approval to release four varieties of BT-brinjal, a genetically modified (GMO) variety,
The environment department on Thursday made public the draft of the National Environment Policy 2013 to elicit public opinion. The draft policy can be downloaded off the DoE site www.doe-bd.org and opinions
GAIBANDHA, Jun 23 (BSS): Crops cultivation pattern is being changed in the district through turning two-crop land into three and four crops one gradually that helps the growers earn more benefit apart
About two lakh people in seven upazilas of Bhola district were again marooned in the last two days due to tidal surge in absence of a 10-kilometre stretch embankment of the Water Development Board. The
Based on a report by the Dhubri Deputy Commissioner to the Border Areas Department, the department took up the issue of erosion with the Union Home Ministry. The department sent three anti–erosion schemes
Two years before the 2015 deadline, Bangladesh has achieved most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set by the United Nations, but the impacts of climate change pose a threat to the country's progress,
Physicinas, academics and politicians on Tuesday urged the governemnt to relocate the proposed Rampal power plant from Sundarbans area to save the forest from destruction. At a human chain, they urged
Campaigners against genetically modified crops have served a legal notice to government asking it to refrain from commercial release of Bt brinjal, a GM crop, in Bangladesh. On behalf of Farida Akhter,
The Department of Environment (DoE) has fined five factories in Dhaka and its adjoining areas Tk 2 crore for polluting the environment, reports UNB. Of the factories, two each are located in Savar and
Formalin is being used by the traders as a preservative in fish, fruits, meat, milk, vegetables and a wide variety of food items. Consumption of such food items, according to medical scientists, may