Two hundred deep tube-wells have been installed at the saline-water-hit Southern Barguna district with Indian grants. Indian High Commissioner Pankaj Saran joined local MP Dhirendra Debnath Shambhu in formally inaugurating them on Sunday. The project, worth nearly Tk 20 million,…
By dint of much interest among the farmers and others concerned, acreage of wheat farming in bed-planting method has started gaining popularity in the region including its vast barind tract for the last couple of years.
By Jonathan Amos Electric fish from South America are opening up new ideas in robotics. Ghost knifefish, as they are known, put a small current through the water to sense their environment, and undulate a long fin to move around.…
By Pallab Ghosh The US city of Chicago is considering drastic measures to prevent giant fish infesting North America’s Great Lakes. Authorities are thinking of blocking the city’s canal system to stop Asian carp entering Lake Michigan. Such a move…
State-owned Petrobangla has signed a deal with Indian state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) for the hydrocarbon exploration and extraction of oil and gas in shallow-water Blocks 4 and 9 of the Bay of Bengal. ONGC is the first…
Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) and Bangladesher Samajtantrik Dal (BSD) will stage demonstrations across the country on March 2 in protest against the government’s move to raise power tariff. In a joint statement, CPB president Mujahidul Islam Selim, its general…
Wildlife experts on Saturday called for raising awareness among the people living in the Sundarbans to save tigers in the world’s largest mangrove forest. “Tigers frequently enter the locality in the Indian part of the Sundarbans, but there is no…
Madagascar’s lemurs – the world’s most threatened primate – could be saved from extinction by eco-tourism, conservationists say.
Fresco, Calif. — Federal officials plan to announce Friday how much water they can release this year through a vast system of rivers, canals and reservoirs, but Central Valley farmers on the front lines of California’s historic drought expect to…
Dhaka – A 5-storey building tilted towards the adjacent building in the city’s Rupnagar on Friday, with panic gripping the residents in the area as the incident came to light in the morning. When contacted, Senior Station Officer of Mirpur…
Bagerhat – A She Royal Bengal tiger, caught with wounds in its right leg from the Sundarbans on February 7, died at Bangabandhu Safari Park in Gazipur on Wednesday night despite a ‘successful’ surgery. Keeping it secret for the last…
A new global monitoring system has been launched that promises “near real time” information on deforestation around the world.
With a week still to go in the winter, the UK’s rainfall record for the season has already been broken.
A female Bengal tiger, recovered with wounds in its right leg from the Sundarbans on February 7, died at Bangabandhu Safari Park in Gazipur on Wednesday night despite a ‘successful’ surgery.
Hyderabad, India – In recognition of his relentless efforts to improve the livelihoods of poor smallholder farmers is Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, Dr William Dar, Director General of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), was conferred…
The beleaguered bumblebee faces a new threat, scientists say.
In the wake of abnormal lowering of underground water table, farmers in the vast Barind tract are being encouraged adopting water-saving irrigation method like AWD.
Experts at a divisional seminar have stressed for innovation and adoption of the community-based mechanisms, ways, strategies and technologies to adapt with changing climate in vulnerable areas including inland chars.
Agricultural experts at a programme have called for boosting agriculture for achieving food security and reducing malnutrition through increased environmentally sustainable agriculture production in the country’s southern region. Addressing a seminar organised by BRAC at its Mohakhali head office on…
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Once sharecroppers, a few now own lands A good number of farmers in Amtali upazila of the district have learnt to turn around economically by cultivating different high-yielding varieties (HYV) of vegetables.
By Ella Davies Farmland butterflies have flourished thanks to last year’s hot summer, the charity Butterfly Conservation says. The annual Wider Countryside Butterfly Survey (WCBS) recorded almost double the number of insects compared with the previous year. Long, sunny periods…
Dhaka – The government is planning to increase the gas and power prices, said State Minister for Power Nasrul Hamid here on Tuesday. Nasrul Hamid came up with the government plan while addressing a conference of diploma engineers of the…
Dhaka – Rain-fed Aus should be reintroduced in the country’s northern region, where great stretches of land have turned fallow due to the depletion in levels of groundwater, observed officials on Tuesday. They also noted that the related research institutes…
The Great Bear Rainforest is the largest temperate forest in the world.
Farmers of 10 districts of Khulna division are expecting a bumper production of mustard in the current rabi season.
Dhaka – Rights activists at a discussion on Monday urged the civil society members of the South Asian countries to get united to make the governments of Saarc nations to focus more on climate change issues. They said if the…
Scientists have made an impassioned plea for humanity to pause and think before making a headlong rush to exploit the deep sea.
British scientists have developed genetically modified potatoes that are resistant to the vegetable’s biggest threat – blight. A three-year trial has shown that these potatoes can thrive despite being exposed to late onset blight.
Experts at a farmers’ field day have stressed for enhanced farming of mustard adopting the new cropping pattern of short duration Aman rice-mustard or potato-mungbean-short duration Aus (pariza) rice to get more profits.