A WildHour on Ecology and Conservation of Hoolock Gibbon in North East Bangladesh, was arranged by the leading conservation learning hub, Noazesh Knowledge Centre (NKC) of WildTeam, at Cosmos Centre in the city’s Malibagh area on Friday.
Category: Environment
Argentina is no climate leader
by Fernando Cabrera Neuquen – Argentinian President Mauricio Macri claims that exploiting his country’s oil and gas shale reserves – the second-largest in the world – is vital not only to lift the economy out of the doldrums but also…
UN: Climate change, depleted resources leave world hungry
Feeding a hungry planet is growing increasingly difficult as climate change and depletion of land and other resources undermine food systems, the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization said Wednesday as it renewed appeals for better policies and technologies to reach…
COP 24 must be the turning point towards ‘Just Transition’
The next round of global climate negotiations, COP 24, takes place in December. It will need to make rapid progress on implementing the Paris Agreement so as to close the gap between what science requires and what countries are doing.…
New sustainable infrastructure coming to 9 cities
Bogotá, Bucaramanga, Cali, Montería, Tshwane, Quito, Curitiba, Quezon City, and Dar es Salaam will receive support in implementing sustainable projects. The announcement made at CFFactory conference in Berlin. Berlin, Germany, 28 November 2018 – Nine cities will receive specialist financial advice…
‘Dhaka’s micro climate degrading fast for lack of action’
Speakers at a workshop on Wednesday opined that due to lack of proper action plan Dhaka city’s micro climate situation is rapidly degrading which has a big impact on its development and habitation.
Youth create businesses geared to protecting the environment
An organic pesticide safe for farmers and the environment, and carbonised fuel briquettes made from agricultural waste materials and organic waste are all business ideas that promote a green economy.
Why I became a disaster expert
By Armen Grigoryan Nov 26 2018 (IPS) – Thirty years ago, a powerful earthquake ripped through my home country of Armenia, leaving 25,000 dead, 500,000 homeless and annihilating an estimated 40 percent of the national economy.
Water-responsible cos, key to ensuring global water security
By Karin Krchnak Over the past fifteen years, I have seen a rapid evolution in corporate actors in recognizing water risks to their operations. In response, some have taken measures to ensure that all water is returned to its originating…
Local tragedy global catastrophe: Worldwatch Institute
In the aftermath of a record-breaking wildfire that destroyed 150,000 acres of forest, destroyed over 14,000 homes and killed at least 85 people in Northern California, President Trump said: “Nobody would have ever thought this could happen.” But in truth,…
Video: Sustainable Blue Economy Conference, Nairobi, Kenya 2018
By IPS World Desk Rome, Nov 24 2018 (IPS) – The first global Sustainable Blue Economy Conference will be held in Nairobi, Kenya from Nov. 26 to 28 and is being co-hosted with Canada and Japan. Over 13,000 participants from…
Rosatom dedicates its documentary “Wild Edens” to Turkey
The premiere of the second serial of the documentary “Wild Edens: Turkey,” that highlights the issue of climate change, took place in Ankara of Turkey recently. Focusing on the flora and fauna in the one-of-a-kind natural habitats of Turkey, the…
Kitchen Gas Cylinder explosion injured three in Dhaka city
Dhaka, Nov 24 )- Three people, including a minor boy, of a family, received burn injuries due to gas cylinder explosion in the city’s Muslimbagh of Kamrangichar on Saturday.
NGOs Call for disinvestments in biodiversity destruction
A discussion held earlier this week at the ongoing Convention of Biodiversity’s (CBD) Conference of Parties in Egypt highlighted that grants to curb deforestation in the Amazon are not enough if they are accompanied with investments that increase the loss…
World’s last wild commercial fishery of pearl oysters
Australia’s remote north-western Kimberley coast, where the Great Sandy Desert meets the sapphire waters of the Indian Ocean, is home to the giant Pinctada maxima or silver-lipped pearl oyster shells that produce the finest and highly-prized Australian South Sea Pearls.
Living with Climate Change
By Patrick V. Verkooijen ROTTERDAM – For anyone still undecided about the consequences of global warming, the summer of 2018, one of the hottest on record, should have tipped the scales.Across far-flung longitudes and latitudes, regions are struggling with the…
Gender and the Arab City
By Lina Abirafeh BEIRUT – One of the top priorities for the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda is to make cities “inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable.” City leaders can take a simple step that would go long a way toward…
Rethinking animal agriculture
By Paul Gilding TASMANIA – In mid-July, as a brutal drought decimated crops, some European dairy and meat farmers were forced to cull their herds early to reduce the number of animals they needed to feed. Such desperate decisions will…
The dred scott of climate change?
By Robert Dugger Washington, DC – In 2015, 21 young people between the ages of 11 and 22 filed a major lawsuit against the US government for failing to limit the effects of climate change. In Juliana v. the United…
The bleak fate of the Amazon
Paulo Artaxo SÃO PAULO – Last month, a deeply divided Brazil voted to elect its next president. Faced with a choice between Fernando Haddad of the leftist Workers’ Party and the right-wing extremist Jair Bolsonaro, Brazilians chose the extremist –…
Create conditions for safe Rohingya return: UNHCR
UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, has appealed to Myanmar to exert all efforts to create conditions for safe return of Rohingyas and address the root causes of the their displacement.
Fossil records from “Cradle of Humankind” give picture of early climate change
Research released by an international group of scientists, including those from Australia, is creating a much more definitive understanding of how and when our ancestors evolved.
3 hard truths about the global sanitation crisis
by Seema Thomas Today when you go to the toilet, be it in someone’s basic latrine in a rural village you might be visiting, in a public toilet where you work, or on a comfortable water-flushed ‘loo’ at home, take…
Level playing field for all parties is a must: Hasna Moudud
Interview with Hasna Jasimuddin Moudud by
Watch two men leading camels in flooded Saudi desert
Dhaka, Nov 20 – Two men lead a herd of camels through a brutal sandstorm and a haze of rain in a dramatic video that’s gone viral for both its drama and its beauty.
Migration into Europe: A long-term solution?
Why has migration become such a big problem? Many reasons can be adduced: the war in Syria, the integration of Eastern Europe, lack of new jobs in many Western countries following the Global Financial Crisis etc. But listing individual reasons…
Ganga Bill ready for introduction in in Indian Parliament
Ganga Bill is ready for introduction in the winter session of Parliament commencing on December 11, 2018, and concluding on 8 January 2019.
Onion Domes: A Temple of Culture and the Truth?
Monowara Begum Moni from Germany At last, I have visited that place, which I have seen very often on TV, the colourful Onion Doms of Moscow. Its name is St. Basil`s Cathedral, an icon of Russia. Its onion- domes have survived…
9 injured in Cox’s Bazar Rohingya camp gas cylinder blast
At least nine Rohingya people sustained burn injuries after a gas cylinder used for inflating balloons exploded at Madhuchhara Camp in Ukhia Upazila on Saturday afternoon.
Record-breaking Alps postcard sends message against climate change
A massive collage of 125,000 drawings and messages from children around the world about climate change was rolled out on a shrinking Swiss glacier on Friday smashing the world record for giant postcards.