Dhaka – Any relief from the searing heat seems unlikely as the prevailing heat wave may continue for 3-4 days more, according to Met office. UNB news reported
Category: Climate
Coal India wins tax boost
State-run Coal India Ltd , saddled with millions of tonnes of unsold coal, is expected to be the biggest beneficiary of a controversial government decision to more than halve the sales tax on the fuel after a jump in local…
400 Dhaka RMG workers fall sick due to hot spell
Dhaka, May 25 – At least 400 employees of several garment factories fell sick due to scorching heat at Konabari and Kashimpur in the Gazipur city on Thursday.
Bangladesh carbon tax plan receives negative response
The Bangladesh government’s plan to introduce a carbon tax has drawn criticism from church activists, environmentalists and the business community. Finance Minister A.M.A. Muhith is considering imposing a carbon tax in the next budget due in June, according to local…
50 RMG workers fall sick for hot weather
Gazipur – More than 50 employees of a garment factory fell sick due to scorching heat at Konabari in the city. UNB news reported
World to cut emissions with or without Trump
By Zofeen Ebrahim Berlin, May 22 (IPS) – In a last-ditch effort, Germany and China are trying to influence the United States not to walk away from the Paris climate change accord it signed along with 194 nations. In December…
Bangladesh to introduce carbon tax from this June
Bangladesh is set to impose its own carbon tax on fuel next month – despite the hugely climate-vulnerable country producing relatively tiny per capita emissions. The tax is expected to be put in place on June 1 as part of…
Heat wave sweeps across country
The country is experiencing a sweltering heat with the mercury soaring to 36 degree Celsius in the capital on Sunday. Besides, power cuts in many parts of the city are worsening the woes of the dwellers. According to Met office,…
Man cooks egg on road in Odisha’s intense heat wave
New Delhi – Even as Odisha is experiencing an intense heat wave with temperatures touching 45 degree Celsius in some places, a man took to cooking an egg on the road to demonstrate just how bad the situation is! UNB…
Cauvery suffers a slow death – urbanisation flourishes
(Editor’s (firstpost.com) note: This is the fourth piece in a multi-part series on the nature of human excesses that have imperiled the fragile ecosystem of the Western Ghats, home to at least 325 globally threatened species of flora and fauna,…
Changed climate befool Dhaka cadamba tree to flower early
Dhaka, May 18 – Changed climate conditions not only make life full of uncertainties at times, but also befool plants and trees. Mostly cloudy sky with intermittant rainall of the last fortnight has made this neolamarckia cadamba tree in Dhaka…
G77 in key role drafting Treaty on Marine Resources
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Climate change has changed geography of Honduras
By Thelma Mejía Balfate, Honduras, May 15 (IPS) – In Balfate, a rural municipality that includes fishing villages and small farms along Honduras’ Caribbean coast, the effects of climate change are already felt on its famous scenery and beaches. The…
Scientists find 38 million pieces of trash on pacific island
When researchers traveled to a tiny, uninhabited island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, they were astonished to find an estimated 38 million pieces of trash washed up on the beaches. Almost all of the garbage they found on…
6 CU students face action
Chittagong – The authorities of Chittagong University have expelled a student and suspended five others on various charges. UNB news agency reported
Address global warming posthaste
By Dean Baker There are two enormous myths about global warming. One is that dealing with it is optional. The other is that the measures needed to slow the process will devastate the economy. Neither is true. On the first…
Developed countries trying to reinterpret Paris Deal: G77
Bonn, 12 May (T Ajit)- The G77 and China said that developed countries are intending to reinterpret the Paris Agreement (PA) by their stance in the negotiations at the Bonn climate talks. At the contact group meeting of the UNFCCC’s…
Yemen minister says 60 percent of population in dire poverty
Riyadh – Yemen’s planning minister says 60 percent of the country’s population is in dire poverty more than two years since the Shiite rebels forced the country’s internationally recognized government and president out of the capital. AP/UNB news agency reported
Paris deal shouldn’t be renegotiated – developing nations
Bonn, 9 May (T Ajit) -As climate change talks under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) convened in Bonn on 8 May, developing countries conveyed unequivocally that the Paris Agreement (PA) must not be renegotiated, nor its…
Rampal plant to become ‘poisonous gas chamber’, says BNP
Khulna – BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Saturday alleged that the government is setting up a ‘poisonous gas chamber’ by implementing the Rampal power plant near the Sundarbans just to appease India. UNB news agency reported
Time to address global warming
There are two enormous myths about global warming. One is that dealing with it is optional. The other is that the measures needed to slow the process will devastate the economy. Neither is true. On the first point, we are…
Food support to Bangladesh’s flash-flood-hit people urgent
Dhaka – Speakers at a view exchange meeting on Sunday emphasised the need for taking coordinated efforts to ensure reaching of food and assistance to all the flood affected people in haor (depression) area until the next harvest. Speaking at…
BNP accuses Govt of maltreating flood-hit haor people
Dhaka – BNP vice-chairman Shamsuzzaman Dudu on Saturday accused the government of maltreating with the flood-hit people of haor areas. Addressing a human chain on Saturday he said that troubles and miseries of the haor areas relected the failure of…
‘Carbon tax’ in Bangladesh from next Fiscal Year
Fahad Ferdous, UNB Staff Writer Dhaka, Apr 29 – The government has planned to impose ‘carbon tax’ from the next fiscal year on the sectors that are polluting the environment, aiming to deal with the environmental concerns and improve the…
A river in Canada vanished in 4 days for climate change
Gopal Krishna A vast river flowing from one Canada’s largest glaciers vanished in just four days last year, due to the glacier’s meltdown propelled by climate change.
Climate-smart agriculture – from Tanzania to Vietnam
By IPS World Desk Rome, Apr 28 (IPS) – As part of efforts to move towards “climate-smart” agriculture, several countries have shared In a meeting in Rome new experiences on how to produce food in ways that help farmers cope…
Flood damages Boro on 219,840 hectares, hits 850,088 families: Govt
Dhaka – Boro crops on 219,840 hectares of land have fully been damaged by flood in six districts of the country since March 29 last, affecting 850,088 families, accordingly to government estimate.The flood caused by heavy rainfall and onrush from…
DU’69 Batch EC members’ get-together held
Dhaka -The members of the executive committee of Dhaka University ’69 batch mates has a get together and dinner at the North Gulshan Club in the capital recently.
Mind the Earth: A New Perspective
Dhaka – Having reached out to global audiences in Copenhagen, Paris and Marrakech, international photo exhibition ‘Mind the Earth: A New Perspective’ has arrived here with its founder and curator Kasper Brejnholt Bak. UNB news agency reported
C’nawabganj flashflood damages paddy on 50 hectares
Dhaka, Apr 26 – Boro paddy on some 50 hectares of croplands in Gomostapur upazila of Chapainawabganj has been damaged due to flashflood triggered by the onrush of water from the upstream through the Punarbhova River.