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.
International World Water Day is held annually on 22nd March as recommended at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). It serves as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. Each year, World Water Day highlights a specific aspect of freshwater.
Shahidul Islam Chowdhury Thousands of banned polythene shopping bags have reappeared, again exposing the people across the country to the threat of severe environmental degradation, because the government is taking no measures against the manufacturing, marketing and use of the bags.
The world's poor are increasingly relying on fish, but a combination of climate change and unsustainable fishing practices could wipe out this vital protein source.
The Government has identified cross-border movement of poultry between India and Bangladesh as the cause of frequent outbreaks of avian flu in Assam and West Bengal, and will ask the two States to check the movement.
State Minister for Housing and Public Works Advocate Abdul Mannan Khan on Monday said, Taka 1,480 crore Hatirjheel-Begunbari canal project in the city would be completed in scheduled time on priority basis for the greater public interest.
A pilot project under Efficient and Climate Change Programme of UNDP has introduced environment-friendly 'green bricks' at Dhamrai to improve kiln efficiency in brick-making industry. Project officials yesterday said the new technology will reduce by 20 percent of average energy cost per unit bricks.
Staff Correspondent The government is likely to develop an open pit coal mine at the Barapukuria coal field at Dinajpur, where land subsidence has taken place following the underground mining of coal.
Our Correspondent . Rajshahi Participants in a seminar on Monday stressed the need for utilising huge quantity of household wastes produced in the Rajshahi city everyday. Household wastes can be turned in assets such as gas and fertiliser by properly utilising them, they told the seminar held at Nagar Bhaban in the city.
Internationally acclaimed economist Prof Chamhuri Siwar of National University of Malaysia at a seminar yesterday stressed the need for rural development strategies. He also suggested encouraging farmers to increase crop yield in this age of globalisation, says a press release.
Exposure to arsenic-contaminated drinking water during pregnancy is associated with low birth weight and fetal loss, and there is concern that the infants' development may be affected. The researchers conducted a large population-based study of nutritional supplementation with 4,436 pregnant women in Matlab, Bangladesh, an area of high-arsenic