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.
<p>Concerns over climate change and climatic variability are growing in South Asia because of the potential detrimental impacts of these phenomena on livelihoods. Such growing concerns demonstrate a need
SANGSAD BHABAN : The Jatiya Sangsad yesterday unanimously passed the “Oceanographic Research Institute Bill, 2014″ aimed at setting up a research institute to extract sea resources and ensure their proper
The government will assess impact of the proposed 1320MW coal-fired power plant on the Sundarbans after the World Heritage Centre, Paris and local environmentalists have expressed concern over setting
This brief provides an overview of the implications of climate change and natural disasters like flood, cyclone, drought, riverbank erosion and salinity intrusion for livelihoods in Bangladesh, especially
It is now widely known that the natural resources and livelihoods of rural poor people are under increasing pressure. Growing demand for natural resources as well as ongoing and projected climatic changes
Naogaon Correspondent :About 135 families of five villages under Niamatpur upazila in the district have been brought under rural electrification network by Naogaon Palli Bidyut Samity (NPBS) on Wednesday.
Mobile courts in Rangpur and Jhenidah districts fined 16 brick kilns for illegal activities on Tuesday and the day before. In Rangpur, five brick kilns were fined Tk 1.88 lakh by a mobile court in Pirganj
Orgenergostroy, a Russia-based company, has won the tender to conduct engineering survey, monitor the environment, and develop project documents for the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant site. The tender
Thousands of people living in Bandarban of Chittagong Hill Tracts are facing an acute crisis of safe drinking water as the sources are being destroyed by rampant stone lifting. Various streams and springs
With landscape view of long paddy fields, lush green trees, bushes and clustered houses, the Baheratoli is truly representing a traditional village of rural Bangladesh. At a first sight anyone will