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 500,000 people move to Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh each year, mostly from coastal, riverine and rural areas.
Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) last year invented four new varieties of rice -- BRRI Dhan-48, BRRI Dhan-49, BRRI Dhan-50 (Bangla Moti) and BRRI Hybrid Dhan-2. With these the number of rice varieties invented by the organisation stood at 51, scientists at the BRRI informed.
Dhaka will take an initiative for holding a regional dialogue on water sharing of the trans-border rivers as the upper riparian India continues unilateral withdrawal of waters depriving Bangladesh of its due share.
The first and foremost challenge in South Asia is the vulnerability to water related disasters. This cause huge loss of life and property estimated loss range from 2-20% and revenue loss between 12-66% and it hinders sustainable development for poverty reduction by eroding hard earned gains of development.
some relief: Sri Lanka will supply special energy food packages to civilians fleeing the war regions in northern Sri Lanka. More than 30,000 civilians are living in welfare centres and some in camps, said Sri Lanka
The river Buriganga is used for river transportation, fishing and maintaining links with southern river ports of Bangladesh.
The world's population will hit seven billion early in 2012 and top nine billion in 2050, with the vast majority of the increase coming in the developing countries of Asia and Africa, according to a new UN estimate, The Associated Press reported from the United Nations, New York.
The Chittagong Water and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) has taken initiative to beat the persistent water crisis in the port city, reviving a foreign-financed project that have been shelved for the last eight years.
Kidney diseases among the people under 15 are on the rise and they now constitute half of the total renal patients in the country, renal specialists said on Wednesday. The nephrologists said an estimated 49 lakh adolescents and children suffer from different kidney aliments and 50 thousand of them die each year due to renal failure. Ninety per cent of these patients die without treatment.
The government has successfully concluded negotiations with the World Bank for a US$62.20 million Clean Air and Sustainable Environment (CASE) project aimed at helping the capital out of environmental hell. An official release says CASE is an innovatively designed project that aims at integrating environment and transport concerns towards a common objective of improving Dhaka's air quality.