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.
The immediate past century saw an unprecedented advancement in science and technology and an acceleration of economic well being. At the same time it also experienced an ever more polluted world, specially an ever-increasing environmental pollution which has emerged as a major global concern for the very survival of human beings as well as all other life forms and the balance of ecosystem.
Speakers at a seminar yesterday expressed concern over high level of natural and man-made environmental pollution. They said water, air, soil and noise pollution, and radiation pose great threat to long-term development effort in the country.
Acute environment pollution is prevailing at Rupganj because the industrial units at the upazila have no treatment plant of management of industrial waste. The industrial units at Rupshi, Kahina, gandarbapur Kazi para, Moikoli, Barpa Ariabo, Mashaboo and Khadon area of Rupganj upazila are dumping untreated industrial waste through canals, which is polluting the environment of the area.
The inhabitants of the capital city Dhaka are living with high risk of being suffering from more than 30 major diseases including blood pressure, heart attack, stroke, insomnia, hearing disability and trouble in concentration, as the level of noise pollution in the city has raised up to 106 decibel, where the tolerance level is maximum 50 decibel.
Shillong: Coal exports from Meghalaya to Bangladesh will resume on Monday after the neighbouring country lifted its ban, official sources said.
Doe's implementation muscle needs strengthening In complete defiance of the court order and notices served by the Department of Environment (DoE) to install Effluent Treatment Plants (ETPs), most of the industries falling under the severe and heavy polluter categories have been found to release their effluents in the rivers, canals and marshy lands surrounding the capital.
Ensuring equitable economic growth and protecting the environment will be the most crucial challenges facing the Asian countries in the coming years, acclaimed academics said at a symposium yesterday. Policymakers must come up with strategies from a new angle, unlike the traditional approach to growth which is not sustainable, they said at a symposium titled "Imagining Another Future for Asia:
A mobile court here fined a brickfield Tk 30,000 on charge of polluting environment by using firewood at Bardal in Assassuni upazila yesterday. Locals said, acting on a tip-off, the mobile court led by executive magistrate Md Sadequr Rahman and aided by a Rab-6 team raided Messrs UMB bricks owned by Bardal Union Parishad (UP) chairman Yunus Ali Sana at Bardal.
Adulterated food items continue selling in the Dhaka city in the absence of proper monitoring by the agencies concerned, posing serious threat to public health. A large number of food shops, sweetmeat houses, restaurants and producers of such foods are selling adulterated items under the very nose of lawmen, said Dhaka City Corporation officials concerned.
Sale of seasonal summer fruits ripened with harmful chemical carbide continues unabated in all the markets of Narail and Jessore towns posing a serious threat to public health. Market sources said a section of traders are selling carbide- ripened summer fruits after treating those with formalin.