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 High Court has rejected two petitions filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia seeking court's directives to state for submitting documents of Barapukuria coal mine graft case. The bench of Justice
A baby was killed and his grandmother critically injured in a rain-triggered landslide in Bandarban Sadar upazila yesterday morning. Overall flood situation in Bandarban, Khagrachhari, Sylhet and Sunamganj
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Twenty-five contaminated water sources in South Africa, Ghana and Bangladesh have been cleansed more than 99 percent by a bug-killing book in its first field trials. Its papers successfully killed bacteria
A book with pages that can be torn out to filter drinking water has proved effective in its first field trials. The "drinkable book" combines treated paper with printed information on how and why water
Bangladesh wildlife officials are mulling a ban on access to the Sundarbans after an alarming rise in poaching of tigers that live in the world's largest mangrove forest, rangers said on Tuesday. Five
The High Court yesterday issued a contempt of court rule against 10 tannery owners for obstructing the implementation of its 2001 judgment on relocation of hazardous tannery industries from the capital's
WaterAid is working hard to ensure that a portion of the US $100 billion committed to climate change every year from 2020 (known as climate finance) is directed towards the essential services – such as
A number of children in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) are stunted, wasted, and underweight, a study of Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) has found. Anaemia prevalence in those children (6-59 months)
Bangladesh Forest Department is going to install tracking devices in the Sundarbans in September next to catch poachers as wildlife hunting, particularly that of tigers, has taken a serious turn in the