In June 2012 a young British architect set sail for Bangladesh, working in collaboration with Engineers Without Borders (EWB-UK) for a local organization – Simple Action For the Environment (SAFE).
Category: Land
22,900 homes to be lost to erosion this year
Although many rivers of the country are dying day by day, nearly 22,900 people may lose their homesteads and croplands this year due to erosion by three major rivers – the Jamuna, Ganges and Padma, says a recent study.
Red brick from Sahara sand
Although the Sahara desert used to be a green retreat for giraffes and hippos 5,000 years ago, it is now a giant, sometimes rolling landscape of sand.
Giant landslides have seismic fingerprints
A new technique that can identify catastrophic landslides based on their seismic signals could one day lead to a global system for identifying regions at particular risk from this hazard.