Gee Isa-al No one leaves their home country to work abroad, without wanting to build a better life for themselves and their families. Unfortunately, poor decisions often limit the benefits that the migrant worker experience delivers. Author Gee Isa-al is…
Marine fisheries catches have been drastically under-reported in the Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean, threatening the marine environment and livelihoods of the local community, reveals a recent study published in the open-access journal Frontiers in Marine Science.
Dhaka – Tidal surges in coastal rivers influenced by moon have breached open embankments and flooded a good number of villages in Bhola and Khulna districts over the last few days, UNB news agency reported. In Bhola, at least 20…
Manchester – Local mistrust is slowing take up of simple innovations that use sunlight to disinfect water, a UK conference has heard. Researchers working on low-cost, low-tech water purification systems for developing countries are struggling to convince local people that…
Dhakla-Though floodwater has started receding from several districts, including Kurigram, Bogra, Jamalur and Sunamganj, over the last couple of days, people’s sufferings have not been eased for lack of relief materials while the flood situation in Faridpur and Manikganj and…
As per the direction of the Awami League president and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the central leaders of AL as well as ministers have started to visit the country’s flood-affected areas in a bid to stand beside flood victims.
Natural cold storage is being adjudged as an effective means of long-term preservation of vegetables and some other seasonal fruits and green spices like garlic and green chili in organic way and its prospect is very much bright in the…
Flood levels have started receding in northern districts adjacent to Brahmaputra and Jamuna rivers at Gaibandha, Jamalpur, Bogra and Nilphamari but swelling in Tangail, Jessore, and Chandpur in central Bangladesh. In Gaibanda overall flood situation at chars and Brahmaputra river…
Dhaka – A low pressure turns into well marked low in the East central Bay of Bengal yesterday that may reactivate the Monsoon rains further over the country, meteorologists said yesterday. The rains would be concentrated in the south than…
The government today formed a four-member scrutiny committee for issuing no objection certificate (NOC) on land use.Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha(RAJUK) would provide secretarial assistance to the committee headed by LGRD secretary Abdul Maleq.Three other members of the committee would be to…
Since 1993, the Trondheim Conferences on Biodiversity have provided a valuable forum for dialogue amongst stakeholders on key issues relating to implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Against the backdrop of the CBD’s Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020…
The High Court on Sunday asked the authorities concerned to submit a report before it by September 1 on steps taken against those involved in tiger poaching in the Sundarbans and smuggling of the big cat organs.
Seattle (AP/UNB) — Genetically modified wheat not approved for sale or commercial production in the United States has been found growing in a field in Washington state, agriculture officials said Friday, posing a possible risk to trade with countries concerned…
Rising like the Emerald City is a building that will not only dwarf the world’s tallest skyscraper — the Burj Khalifa in Dubai — but double its height.If built, the aptly named Sky Mile Tower by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates…
The flood situation in Faridpur, Gaibandha, Kurigram, Jamalpur, Bogra and Munshiganj districts worsened further on Friday, as waters in the rivers flowing through the districts are swelling.Gaibandha Water Development Board sources said the Brahmapurta, the Jamuna and the Gaghat rivers…
Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan on Friday asked the deputy commissioners to take effective measures to stop illegal sand lifting from rivers across the country and to curb their pollution and encroachment as well.The minister said this while talking to reporters…
Steve Williams Tuesday was International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem, or World Mangrove Day, and Sri Lanka’s prime minister celebrated by opening a museum dedicated to mangroves. But mangroves are important to the entire world, not just…
Police on Thursday foiled an attempt of the National Committee to Protect Oil-Gas-Natural Resources and Power-Port to march towards the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) protesting the signing of a contract for implementing the Rampal power plant project near the Sundarbans.The…
Narrow national interests are threatening to derail an upcoming UN summit which aims to bring countries together to find a more humane and coordinated approach to large movements of refugees and migrants.The existing system, which was established after World War…
Climate change and related extreme weather events have devastated the lives and livelihoods of tens of millions of most vulnerable people worldwide– by far exceeding the total of all the unfortunate and unjustifiable victims of all terrorist attacks combined. However,…
Dhaka – Water experts and activists on Wednesday called for mobilising public opinion in favour of the protecting rivers which are basic to life and livelihood to 160 million people of Bangladesh. They made the call at an opinion exchange…
Water Resources Minister Anisul Islam Mahmud today said the government has taken initiatives for river management system including capital dredging in the country’s big and important rivers.Replying to a starred question from treasury bench member Momtaz Begum in the Jatiya…
Environment and Forest Minister Anwar Hossain today placed the “Bangladesh Biodiversity Bill, 2016” aimed at strengthening the measures of biodiversity conservation in the country.He said the proposed bill would highlight biodiversity in the perspective of Bangladesh as the country is…
As part of the government’s decision to dismantle commercial structures from residential areas in the city, Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkah (Rajuk) launched a drive at Uttara on Monday.During the drive, five unauthorised restaurants and a residential hotel were shut down, said…
Dhaka – Bangladesh Navy has submitted a strategy before the government to control pollution and encroachment as well as maintaining proper navigability in four rivers that are considered the lifeline of capital Dhaka, official sources said, according to BSS.
The government will take a crash programme to check river pollution and grabbing, said Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan on Sunday.
Dhaka – The 4th Bangladesh Summit on Sustainable Development begins on Sunday to review the implementation and monitoring process of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The two-day Summit is being jointly organized by Secretariat of Global Citizens’ Forum on Sustainable…
S Kunjabihari Singh Plantation could be only one important factor for reducing pollution, for helping sustaining the atmosphere and maintaining the eco-system. A host of other measures are called for to arrest the rise in global warming. Global warming is…
A heavy monsoon shower submerged many roads in the capital on Friday afternoon, inflicting sufferings on commuters.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday that climate change is as dangerous as, if not more than, the threats posed by the Islamic State and other extremist groups.Speaking Friday in Vienna at an international climate change conference, Kerry…