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.
Multiple factors contributed to high and volatile food prices in Bangladesh during the 2007/2008 period. A "perfect storm" of international, regional and national conditions delivered a powerful economic shock to the country's food security.
Owing to its enormous construction and maintenance costs, the management of wastewater in many urban centres of developing countries via a centralised wastewater management approach is very difficult.
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Different species of indigenous fishes is under threat of extinction in Patuakhali due to continued drying up of rivers and lack of adequate water in water bodies like haors and beels. Once famous for fish resources, the coastal district produced a huge quantity of sweet-water fishes in the rivers and water bodies but now the scenario has changed, local sources said.
Timbers worth about Tk 10 crore are being damaged at various range offices of Forest Department in Khagrachhari due to negligence of officials concerned and a High Court 'stay order' on inviting tender to sell them.
Sustainable management of land, the scarcest resource in the country, is a must to ensure security of food, water and energy but the development policies of the country was never focused on this sector, the speakers said.
To ensure availability and provide safe drinking water in schools, Coca-Cola Far East Ltd in partnership with Plan Bangladesh launched a 'Rain water harvesting and drinking water project' at a school at Mirpur in the city on Tuesday, says a press release. As part of the project equipments were installed at Surovi School under Block-E in Mirpur.
Sales and promotion of tobacco products on the Jagannath University campus will be prohibited, said the university vice-chancellor, Professor Abu Hossain Siddique, at an awareness campaign on Tuesday.
Speakers at a dialogue yesterday underscored the need for encouraging the use of biotechnology to make the country's position stronger in the global revolution of its use. They called on the government to set up a separate national commission for biotechnology and making the National Institute of Biotechnology more dynamic.
Bio-waste generated at the city's kitchen markets might no more be used for land filling and such other purposes since it is now being utilised as a raw material for producing quality bio-fertiliser.