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 polythene stratum measuring about ten feet in thickness is said to be embedded under a certain stretch of the Buriganga. The river remains terribly polluted from domestic and industrial wastes disgorging into it, anyway. The polythene comes as an aggravating factor, especially given the shallowness of the river.
Researchers at Binerpota Agriculture Research Centre here have evolved two new varieties of salinity-tolerant soybean seed ushering in a high hope of providing nutrition to the poor people at lower cost. Researchers of the Centre under Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute, after relentless efforts since 2002, finally evolved BARI Soybean-5 and Sohag varieties of soybean seeds in 2007.
Experts at a discussion here yesterday stated that massive siltation of the Padma river and its tributaries have triggered the flood tendency during the monsoon in the region. Terming the monsoon flood as the main natural calamity in the region they said many people become victim of the disaster every year.
Telecommunications Minister Razi Uddin Ahmed Razu yesterday stressed the need for encouraging farmers to use modern agricultural technologies to give the country's agro-based economy a firm footing.
Air pollution in capital city Dhaka raised higher than Mexico and Mumbai killing thousands of people prematurely each year, health experts say. According to the Department of Environment (DoE) the density of airborne particulate matter (PM) reaches 463 micrograms per cubic metre (mcm) in the city during December-March period - the highest level in the world.
A polythene stratum measuring about ten feet in thickness is said to be embedded under a certain stretch of the Buriganga. The river remains terribly polluted from domestic and industrial wastes disgorging into it, anyway. The polythene comes as an aggravating factor, especially given the shallowness of the river.
The country is walking the path of a perennial gas crisis where even the best possible situation of striking gas in the off-shore blocks will not give it a respite till 2020.
Bangladesh has offered Fiji to support its developmental efforts with expertise in agricultural field as well as skilled and semi-skilled manpower. This was stated by the Bangladesh high commissioner to the Republic of the Fiji Islands, Lieutenant General Masud Uddin Chowdhury, while presenting his credentials to the president of Fiji, Ratu Josefa Lioilovatu Uluivuda, on Thursday.
Save the Environment Movement on Friday formed a human chain in the city