Green spaces, trees and bodies of water are must-have design features for future development in Sydney’s suburbs after researchers found that by 2050 global warming combined with Sydney’s urban heat island effect could increase temperatures by up to 3.7°C.
The fortnight long Barisal divisional tree fair started at Bangabandhu Udyan premises of the city Sunday.
A recent report by the Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused tanneries in Bangladesh of’ ‘systemic human rights violations’ putting on dock an industry that has emerged as a major supplier of leather for footwear and suitcases, belts and bags…
KATHMANDU – Increased air pollution before and during the Asian summer monsoon will change rainfall patterns across Asia, as well as the regional and global climate, a gathering of atmospheric scientists in Nepal has heard.
Agricultural experts have called for more holistic agricultural innovation to achieve global food security.
Indiscriminate catching of fires is causing a sharp depletion of shrimp and other fish resources in the rivers of the coastal Barguna district.
Agriculture experts at a discussion here on Saturday afternoon called upon the farmers for storing potato under natural condition at the lowest cost at their homesteads up to five months period to earn more profits.
A bumper jute production is likely in northern region despite a little shortfall in the farming target as harvest of the fibre crop just began almost everywhere this season, official sources said.
A weeklong tree fair, organized jointly by district administration, District Agriculture Extension Department and District Social Forestry Department, was Inaugurated here on Friday on Brahma Samaj Road. DC of Faridpur Mainuddin Ahmed attended the inaugural function as the chief guest…
Enhanced farming of short duration Aus paddy during the off-season through reducing Boro cultivation can ensure national food security improving environment, ecology and bio-diversity, experts said here yesterday.
Every year hundreds of baby loggerhead turtles hatch on the beaches of the Caribbean and journey towards the ocean. This year one group of baby turtles on the Dutch-controlled island of Bonair needed a little help.
More than three-quarters of farmers don’t feel the potential for on-farm renewable energy is being met, according to new figures.
The farmers have got bumper Boro paddy yield exceeding the set production target by 6.87 percent during the this Rabi season in the northern districts, official sources have said.
Some peddlers and dishonest people have been selling spurious cosmetics to passengers at bus terminals in Sylhet. However, this section is making money by fooling the passengers and contrinuting their business allegedly by collaborating with on duty law enforcers.
The Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) on Thursday resumes its waterbus service on the Dhaka circular waterway to avert the nagging traffic congestion of the capital.
An India-Bangladesh round table has suggested the creation of a single joint rivers commission headed by a prominent Indian or Bangladeshi leader on an alternative basis for sustainable management of their shared water resources.
The production of Hilsa, known as king of fish species, has increased 22 percent in last three years in Barisal district.
Speakers in a function here on Wednesday stressed the need for boosting production of fishes including indigenous ones to meet the nutrition demand for the people of the country.
Power outages have become a regular phenomenon in Rajibpur upazila adding to sufferings of the people during the current summer. People’s woes have mounted because of hot temperature as two power stations of the region have remained shut.
At least 50 thousand people of Morrelganj upazila in the district have been facing untold sufferings for the last one week as they were marooned due to water logging created for the onrush of the water of the river Panguchi…
A seven day-long tree fair began at Moulvibazar Government High School Playground in the district town on Monday.
Awareness building up activity in prevention of adulteration in food items has been continuing among the students of different academic institutions in the district since June 25.
The people in Nalitabari upazila of Sherpur are at dangerous risk of arsenic contamination.
Participants at a campaign to ensure a child’s rural to urban safe migration and prevent trafficking and abuse of children stressed on opening registration centers at grassroots level for preserving facts of migrated children.
Environmentalists and rights activists at a discussion here on Sunday stressed proper utilisation of the allocation made in the national budget to implement the Haor Development Master Plan.
The embankments of Water Development Board (WDB) in 5 upazilas of the district werebreached at many points following the depression formed in the Bay of Bengal and tidal surge and at least 40 villages in 5 upazilas were inundated.
Solar cells have been changing for years and gradually becoming less expensive, more compact and more efficient. Most efforts at improving solar cells have focused on increasing the efficiency of their energy conversion, or on lowering the cost of manufacturing.…
During the smoky season, or “musim kabut” as it is called in Indonesia, skeletons of leaves fall from the sky and disintegrate like melting snowflakes in children’s hands.
Heavy rains drenched the capital for the second consecutive day on Saturday causing immense sufferings to the commuters.
As the seasonal fruits like Mangoes, Jackfruits, Pineapples and Blackberries arrive with the Monsoon rains, hundreds of traders, mostly students and others with blessings from powerful quarters have set up shops on the pavements in Station Road, Kodomtoly, Bondor, Zindabazar,…