Sufi scholars have called for changed human attitude in negating global warming as an international conference in Indian capital of New Delhi drew a number of Muslim Sufi saints and religious scholors to discuss ways to prevent curses like militancy…
Dhaka – Bangladesh Textile Mills Association (BTMA) President Tapan Chowdhury has indicated three things as a hindrance of textile sector investment, these are, inadequate gas, scarcity of electricity and land deficiency.
Construction works of two units 1320 (660 x 2) Megawatt coal based power plants at Rampal will begin at the end of next March. While visiting the area this correspondent found that earth (soil) filling work on the requisite 915…
Agriculture experts and environmentalists underscored on the issues of adaptation to global climate change and its adverse impacts on the agriculture sector must get maximum priority in every country to keep agro-production increasing for ensuring food security. They expressed this…
Munich (Germany), Feb 18 – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday sought support from the international community, including Germany, to temporarily relocate illegal Myanmar nationals living in Bangladesh to Thengar Char in Noakhali for providing them with all sorts of…
Dhaka, Feb 18 – A new species of — Sykes’s Nightjar — has been spotted for the first time in Bangladesh showing a change in its distribution range. Sykes’s Nightjar (Caprimulgus mahrattensis), is a semi-desert species of bird, is generally…
A pilot project aimed at helping thousands of undocumented workers in Bahrain regularise their status will be launched in April, according to a senior official.
Scientists have published a major study which links outdoor air pollution with 2.7 million preterm births per year. The study, which was led by a team from The Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) at the University of York, found that in…
Danielle Nierenberg Conventional agricultural practices can adversely impact biodiversity and ecosystem health, according to a recent report published in Solutions. In fact, both corporations and eaters rarely pay for the true cost of food on the environment, public health, and…
Finding the optimum environment and avoiding uninhabitable conditions has been a challenge faced by species throughout the history of life on Earth. But as the climate changes, many plants and animals are likely to find their favoured home much less…
Myanmar’s national security adviser says the military has ended its four-month counterinsurgency operation in troubled Rakhine state, where it had been accused of rape, torture and other abuses against Muslim Rohingya minority residents.
For Israel and Palestine, 2017 marks several major anniversaries: the 100th of the Balfour Declaration, which proclaimed British support for establishing a national home for the Jewish people in historic Palestine, the 70th of Palestine’s partition into Jewish and Arab…
Thousands of Mongolian herders face disastrous livestock losses from dreaded severe weather known as the “dzud”, the Red Cross said Thursday in launching an international emergency aid appeal. Landlocked Mongolia is grappling for the second straight year with losses from…
Dhaka – The Eurpean Union and Bangladesh have agreed to launch an information and awareness raising campaign on the risks of irregular migration. A workshop in this regard will be held in Dhaka on 28 February next. This has been…
The UK government must introduce Clean Air Zones across the country and commit to cleaning up the UK’s air faster says Friends of the Earth, as the European Commission today (15 February) issues a “final warning” demanding that the UK…
Dhaka, Feb 15 – Buses that are 20 years old cannot ply the roads under Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) from the next month.
A pesticide industry legal challenge to current EU restrictions on neonicotinoid pesticides is taking place Tuesday and Wednesday (15-16 February).
Last year’s unusually potent El Nino produced monster waves that carved away record-breaking swathes of the US West Coast’s beaches, said a study Tuesday, warning that recovery may take years. Erosion at 29 beaches from Washington to southern California during…
Rome, 14 February – Describing rural development as a “moral obligation,” Kanayo F. Nwanze, President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), made his final appeal to governments on behalf of poor rural people across the globe at today’s…
Delia Paul A national dialogue process on green finance in Italy has yielded a list of 18 possible policy actions for redesigning the country’s financial system to meet sustainability aims. The one-year dialogue engaged Italy’s banking and finance sector to…
In December 2016 Monsanto shareholders voted in favour of the sale of the company to Bayer for US$66 billion, making it the largest-ever foreign corporate takeover by a German company.
Environment-friendly technology set to narrow the gap between water demand and availability Experiments in six-month pilot increase rainfall, and government decides to extend the project Questions remain on the consistency of results and impact on neighboring countries Amman – The…
More than 50 animal species that share the US-Mexico border ecosystem are in danger. Since 2011, researchers have warned that the number would increase if barriers grow. One study found that barriers affect the movement of animals, not undocumented people…
Early Thursday, immigration attorneys in Los Angeles started getting calls from clients across the city. Some callers reported being picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at their homes. Others were caught at their workplaces, including one man…
Sunday amid a record-breaking heatwave that sparked dire warnings from authorities. While bushfires are common in Australia’s arid summer, climate change has pushed up land and sea temperatures and led to more extremely hot days and severe fire seasons. “The…
Government issues emergency over “imminent” collapse of Oroville Dam’s spillway as thousands flee from their homes. At least 130,000 people living below the tallest dam in the United States have been asked to evacuate as a spillway appeared in danger…
Doha, Qatar: Qatar has approved a draft law which would provide legal protection for tens of thousands of female domestic workers for the first time, according to state media.
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Sunday said the Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar who entered Bangladesh illegally will be rehabilitated to Thengarchar in Hatiya for protecting the beach town of Cox’s Bazar. “The Rohingyas will be rehabilitated to…
Around 70 people suffered carbon monoxide poisoning, including five seriously, at a private indoor karting event in central Belgium on Saturday, authorities said. The incident took place at around 8:30pm at a newly opened indoor karting venue in Wavre, a…
More than 200 whales stranded on a remote beach in New Zealand on Saturday have refloated themselves and returned to sea. But conservation officials have warned that they could still turn back to the beach at Farewell Spit, South Island.…