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.
Yet another expatriate Bangladeshi has been gaining prominence slowly but steadily in the international arena. He has been working on renewable solar energy for more than a quarter of a century. This particular area of science has come to the forefront in view of energy crisis and global warming.
The High Court yesterday issued injunction on dismantling of toxic ship MT Enterprise in response to a writ petition filed by Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (Bela) challenging the breaking of the ship. A division bench comprising Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain and Justice Quamrul Islam Siddiqui passed the order after hearing on the petition.
Launches remain stationary at Sadar Ghat in the capital yesterday as the government prevented them from operating in the inclement weather. Photo: STAR The deep depression over the Bay of Bengal grew into Cyclone Reshmi yesterday, and was approaching the country's south-western coast with the possibility of making landfall by noon today.
Greenhouse gases naturally blanket the Earth and keep it about 33 degrees Celsius warmer than it would be without these gases in the atmosphere.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the European Commission (EC) have signed a MoU to jointly support Bangladesh in its environmental management activities.
In 2007, there were 874 weather-related disasters worldwide, a 13-percent increase over 2006 and the highest number since the systematic recording of natural perils began in 1974. Weather-related disasters around the world have been on the rise for decades (see Figure 1): on average, 300 events were recorded every year in the 1980s, 480 events in the 1990s, and 620 events in the last 10 years.
Drinking water in Bangladesh is often full of salt as rising sea levels force water further inland. Expensive technology offers solutions but who will foot the bill? Momtaj Begum, holding her baby daughter, is among hundreds of women queuing for a pitcher of drinking water at a desalinisation plant in Tafalbaria, a remote village in the Bagerhat district in south-west Bangladesh.
National Sanitation Month-08 is being celebrated in all the seven upazilas of the district from October 01 with much enthusiasm aimed at achieving 100 percent sanitation target by 2010.
Water experts at an opinion exchange meeting yesterday emphasised the need for involving local people to save the Buriganga river from dying. Addressing the function, they also demanded protection of the river at its upstream branches from pollution.
Sylhet Division Development Student Action Council, Dhaka University yesterday organised a human chain programme at the foot of Aparajeyo Bangla of Dhaka University protesting cutting of trees at Khasia Palli at Srimangal in Moulvibazar district.