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.
On Thursday, June 5 World Environment Day (WED) was observed in countries across the globe including Bangladesh.
Hasna Moudud, green activist and former chairman of the special parliamentary committee in Bangladesh on environment and coastal areas, is founder-adviser of GLOBE International, a forum that brings legislators, scientists and business leaders together for dialogues on environmental issues. She talks to Narayani Ganesh of the need to focus on the gender aspect of climate change: What is the gender aspect of climate change?
THIS year's agriculture census 2008-09 is in progress in the country, and the time fixed for sample surveys at field level was May 11-29. The survey report will be released in June 2009. It will be good if the report can be publicly available in time. The last report of the agriculture census, 1996, was released in July 1999. An agriculture census is essential to obtain the detailed data/statistics/information necessary to keep the nation informed of the changes in the country's agriculture.
The number of children suffering from rickets has been increasing day by day since the last three decades, which is estimated over 5 lakh in different upazilas across the country. The prevalence of patients suffering from rickets is more in coastal belt areas. The cases of rickets are also found in six divisions with Sylhet and Chittagong predominantly.
The Sylhet city Corporation (SCC) could not make any progress in recovering the grabbed natural streams in the city though six months have already passed after allocation of Tk one crore by the LGRD ministry for the purpose. As monsoon approaches, the city dwellers brace for sufferings from severe water-logging as most of the outlets are clogged by encroachers. SCC Chief Executive Officer Kazi Abdul Nur however told The Daily Star yesterday that they have started clearing the streams and drains. But this will help a little to drain out rain water.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon called for a huge rise in food production Tuesday as world leaders started a summit on the food price crisis that threatens to plunge millions more people into poverty. The UN secretary general said food output had to rise 50 percent by 2030 to meet rising demand, increased finance for agriculture and the elimination of "trade and taxation policies that distort markets."
Speakers at the concluding day of a two-day seminar at Jahangirnagar University on Monday called upon the government, environmentalists and researchers to take initiatives to face the effect of climate change and environmental pollution. The seminar, titled
Several hours of rainfall on Monday caused water logging and severe tailback in many parts of the capital giving a wakeup alarm of miseries for city dwellers during monsoon. Many roads including Bangabandhu Avenue, Mirpur Road, Bijoy Sarani, Nayapaltan were inundated in just three hours of showers prior to the full advent of the rainy season. The weather office recorded 79 millimetres of rainfall in the capital from morning till 3:00pm on Sunday with most of the downpour, about 74 mm, occurring between 12:00pm and 3:00pm.
The possible economic cost of confronting global warming
Construction of a bridge over the River Morasati under Aditmari upazila in Lalmonirhat brings hopes for thousands of farmers in different upazilas of the district. Farmers in remote areas have got connected with the district as well as different upazila headquarters after construction of the bridge and now they can transport their agri produce to these places for better prices.