Criticising environmentalists for not raising voice against indiscriminate tree felling across the country during ongoing political shutdown and blockade programmes, Environment Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud said BNP-Jamaat has not only announced a war against people but also against the nature.
Farmers and others concerned called for continuation of quality seed production project of Barind Multipurpose Development Authority (BMDA) for the sake of boosting rice production in the region including its vast Barind tract.
Production of compost fertilizers in homestead areas has become popular bringing fortune to hundreds of people including small and marginal farmers and distressed women in recent years in northern Bangladesh.
Scientists have finally begun mapping one of the least explored regions of Antarctica – the Recovery Catchment.
Three years ago, Prof John Beddington, then chief scientist of the UK government, warned that shortages of food, water and energy would unleash public unrest, cross-border conflicts and mass migration by 2030.
After playing, feeding, and socializing in trees all day, some ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) take their nightly respite in caves, according to a new study in Madagascar Conservation and Development.
Europe’s rarest species of orchid has been rediscovered on a single volcanic ridge in the Azores, claim scientists.
Farmers of selected areas of eight northern districts including Gaibandha under Rangpur division are experiencing four crops in a land annually through systematic cultivation.
The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has taken up a massive plan to cultivate mustard in all five upazilas of the district during the current Rabi season.
Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) has planned to conserve 53 natural water-bodies in the city in order to retain its surface water resources for protecting the environment from further degradation.
The United Kingdom is an island nation with more than 11,000 miles of coastline.
Harlequin ladybirds escape parasites which attack native species, scientists have found.
Farmers and officials of the DAE are expecting a bumper production of winter vegetables in South-western region under Khulna division in the current Rabi season.
Cultivation of orange on commercial basis has become popular in the sub-Himalayan northern districts where farmers have been getting excellent production of the high-priced aristocrat fruit in recent years.
The government has set a target of procuring 64,876 tonnes of Aman rice from all 58 upazilas in eight districts under Rangpur division during this season, official sources said.
Farmers are expecting bumper production of winter vegetables cultivated in the district during this Rabi-1 season.
Mangrove forests are one of the most important weapons in the fight against climate change.
The mass exodus from low-lying Bangladesh and coastal cities of China, Indonesia and India poses perhaps the biggest challenge for Australia, which could face a wave of climate refugees. Image:
Harvesting of Aman paddy is progressing fast in 10 districts of Khulna division during the current season with much enthusiasm among the farmers, Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) sources said.
People living with HIV are not happy with the government when it comes to treatment and detection of new cases. A representative of their network, Habiba Akhter, said five out of eight blood samples testing machines for HIV lay idle…
Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has taken up a massive plan to cultivate Irri-Boro paddy in 11 southern districts during the current Irri-Boro season.
Large-scale adoption and popularisation of the latest technologies among the farmers can further increase crop production at reduced costs to ensure food security despite climate change impacts.
Bangladesh Agriculture Development Corporation (BADC) here has distributed 1,250 tonnes of Boro seeds in the five upazilas of the Joypurhat district to make the Boro cultivation programme a success.
Shariful Islam, a farmer of Kodamshahar under Godagari Upazila of the district, has started soybean farming for the first time in Barind tract experimentally.
Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has taken a massive plan to cultivate winter vegetables in ten upazilas of the district during the current Rabi season.
Cultivation of late variety Nazirshail rice has started becoming popular among the farmers of Teesta River basins under six unions of Sundarganj upazila in the district in recent years.
Speakers at a meeting here have called upon the pesticide retailers for awakening and educating farmers and providing them necessary knowledge to ensure safer and optimum use of chemical pesticides in crop fields.
A senior Greenpeace official has denied that a group held in a Russian jail after a protest against oil-drilling in the Arctic were ill-prepared.
Five Britons arrested by Russian authorities during a Greenpeace protest in the Arctic have been freed on bail after two months in detention.
From: Jordanna Dulaney, MONGABAY.COM A recent study from the Biological Conservation journal brings shocking news: every year across the globe, an estimated 400,000 seabirds are killed by gillnets.