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.
About 70- 80 per cent of over seven lakh automobile that ply on city streets, are faulty and emit black smoke in excess of the permissible limit. Black smoke is primarily unburned carbon that is turned
Use of contraband polythene-made shopping bag has become rampant in the Sylhet city and elsewhere in the district in absence of proper monitoring by the authorities concerned. Talking to New Age residents
The erosion of the rivers Jamuna and the Pamada has taken a serious turn due to sudden rise of water level in Shibalaya, Horirampur and Daulatpur upazilas and at some other places of the district.
The government has taken a move to conduct a study to determine the presence of toxic heavy metals including cadmium and arsenic in rice, officials said. The Soil Resource Development Institute under
Erosion by the River Jamuna took a serious turn, devouring around 200 homesteads and a vast tract of croplands at different villages in four unions under Daulatpur upazila in the last three days. The
A large number of farmers in the district are worried about aman cultivation this season as the recent flood damaged the seedlings in Teesta and Dharla river basin char (landmass emerged from riverbed)
Parliament on Sunday passed ‘National River Protection Commission Bill -- 2013’ aimed at protecting the country’s rivers from encroachers and pollution. Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan placed the bill
The government has taken an initiative to create mass awareness about food nutrition to reduce nutrition deficiency as well as on food security, post-harvest technology, and food processing and its preservation,
At least two-thirds of the city remain outside the sewerage network of Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (DWASA) following which big quantity of untreated sewage regularly falls into rivers, canals
Water level of all the 16 rivers in Kurigram district including the Brahmaputra, Dharla,Teesta, Dudkumor and Sonavory have been risen sharply creating flash flood due to torrential rain and on rush of