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 Netherlands government has provided US$ 3 million (Tk 23 crore) to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) to help people living in disaster-prone districts of southwest Bangladesh get better prepared to
The residents of Chittagong city are exposed to a wide range of health hazards from irritability to permanent hearing loss, as increasing levels of noise go far above the safety limits. According to the
Breach of this embankment under the impact of tidal surges influenced by the full moon and three days of downpour caused massive flooding in Sudhirpur and Nizampur villages of Kalapara upazila in Patuakhali
Bangladesh is extremely vulnerable to the impact of climate change because it is a low-lying, flat country subject to both riverine flooding and sea level rise, and because a large portion of its population
<p>Stratagem to promote improvement based on the cultivating, nurturing, harvesting, jamboree, processing, collecting period and diversifying of acclimatized species implicitly target households as principal
The government has failed to set up over 60 union level healthcare sub-centres in Dhaka district to deliver health services at grassroot level. Though there was no infrastructure of 62 planned union sub-centres,
The World Bank on Thursday approved US$ 375 million in concessional financing and $25 million in grant to Bangladesh for increasing the resilience of the coastal population to climate change-induced flooding
The World Bank has approved $375 million in concessionary financing and $25 million in grant to Bangladesh to increase the resilience of the coastal population to climate change induced flooding and other
The World Bank (WB) has approved US$400 million assistance for Bangladesh to boost resilience of the coastal population to climate-change-induced flooding and other natural disasters. WB Dhaka office
Gulshan Lake and its surroundings continue to be polluted as household wastes and sewage find their way into the water body. Local people and environmentalists have alleged that for lack of enforcement