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.
Indigenous fish species, particularly the small ones, are on the verge of extinction due to various reasons including frequent and indiscriminate use of harmful pesticides and chemical fertilisers in agricultural
A total of 4,91,102 farmers have been affected by two recent floods that caused a financial loss of Tk 695.20 crore, according to final estimate of the agriculture ministry. Net 89,092 hectares of croplands
The government has taken a move to lower sufferings of the people living in 32 upazilas of six districts at upstream of Megna basin by undertaking flood controlling and livelihood improvement measures.
Ketoprofen, a substitute for diclofenac which is also lethal for vultures, was found in 40% of the sampled drug stores A cattle drug that has played a deadly role in critically endangering the wild
The government has launched agriculture rehabilitation and incentive programmes with a cost of nearly Taka 24 crore to compensate crop loss of the flood-affected farmers and motivate the southern region
1366 - 1374Bangladesh is one of the only nine Countdown countries that are on track to achieve the primary target of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5 by 2015. It is also the only low-income or middle-income
World Bank-IMF study for 2011, however, says the pace of reduction in absolute poverty has been substantial; report stresses skills training for youth as key India was home to about a third of the world's
After vanishing from Delhi, the endangered vultures are facing the threat of extinction in the Indian subcontinent also. The UNEP, in its report released on Wednesday on biodiversity, claimed that a
Tidal water from the Bay of Bengal threatens a few thousand jhau trees (tamarisk) as they may collapse anytime due to gradual exposure and damage of roots. Around a thousand trees fell into sea water
A meeting of the Bangladesh-India Joint Steering Committee (JSC) on power sector development begins on Thursday in New Delhi, reports UNB. At the two-day meeting, Bangladesh will place a joint survey