Greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere reached a record high in 2014 and the relentless fuelling of climate change is endangering the planet for future generations, the World Meteorological Organisation said on Monday.”Every year we say that time is running…
Bangladesh does not need to be worried at all about China’s dam built on the Brahmaputra River as it will not hamper water flow in any way, said a Chinese government official.
An increase in Antarctic snow accumulation that began 10,000 years ago is currently adding enough ice to the continent to outweigh the increased losses from its thinning glaciers.Areas of the continent like the Antarctic peninsula have increased their mass loss…
Energy experts and economists here on Thursday called for prioritising environmental issues while taking energy projects by the nations in the South Asia and South East Asia region.
Good news for wine drinkers – a leading international body says grape vines are a hardy little number and can survive climate change, at least over the medium term.Earlier harvesting, changes in grape varieties and new wine-making processes have already…
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) is likely to approve a mega project on Thursday, aiming to protect around 2.5 million people in the country’s north-western region from erosion by the Jamuna River and thus help them…
On Tuesday October 27th, the Delegation of the European Union, BRAC, and the Centre for Climate Change and Environmental Research (C3ER) of BRAC University organized a workshop titled “Growth and Climate Change: Opportunities and Challenges in Bangladesh”.
Renewables are powering a rare bright spot in the energy industry, with record job hiring in solar, wind and hydro partly offsetting the biggest round of job losses in the oil and gas sector in almost two decades.The boom in…
The howler monkeys whose guttural calls reverberate through Central and South American rainforests possess a secret that the males of the species may prefer to be left unrevealed.Howler monkeys make among the loudest, deepest sounds of any land animal, and…
The United States and other rich nations are doing less than their fair share to fight climate change under a UN accord due in December while China is outperforming, a report by 18 civil society groups said on Monday.Overall, governments’…
An international team of scientists has identified potential ‘tipping points’ where abrupt regional climate shifts due to global warming could result in natural disasters.They found evidence of 41 cases of regional abrupt changes in the ocean, sea ice, snow cover,…
Some 30 years after the world’s worst nuclear accident blasted radiation across Chernobyl, the site has evolved from a disaster zone into a nature reserve, teeming with elk, deer and wolves, scientists said on Monday.The remarkable turnaround in the area,…
There is no alternative to creating social awareness and comprehensive efforts by all concerned for ensuring pollution-free rivers, which are lifelines for ecology, economy, biodiversity and heritage of the nation.The opinion came this afternoon at a post-walkathon discussion organised by…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has received the highest environmental accolade of the United Nations Environmental Programme-(UNEP), ‘The Champions of the Earth’, award in recognition of Bangladesh’s far-reaching initiatives in addressing problems induced by climate change. UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner…
by Sunita Narain This is our season of despair. This year, it would seem, the gods have been most unkind to Indian farmers. Early in the year came the weird weather events, like hailstorms and freak and untimely rains that…
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a newly created regional human rights body, on Thursday alleged that the government has been proceeding to implement the coal-fired Rampal power plant project based on arbitrary power, not logic. “Just a feudal mentality…
Washington, D.C.- On August 30-31, US President Obama traveled to Alaska to address the U.S. State Department’s conference on Global Leadership in the Arctic: Cooperation, Innovation, Engagement and Resilience (GLACIER), highlighting international and domestic priorities in the region. However, as…
West Brom boss Tony Pulis says Saido Berahino is not a “lump of meat” and needs protecting during the summer.
Man-made climate change is expected to have a “significant effect” on the wildlife of the planet. And, if fossil evidence is anything to go by, it could seriously alter the course of evolution.The hunting habits of the wolf – ancestor…
Driven by poaching, the Sumatran rhinoceros is now extinct in the wild in Malaysia, says a study by leading scientists and experts in the field of rhino conservation.The survival of the Sumatran rhino, earlier found across most of Southeast Asia,…
With the fall of water level in the Brahmaputra, the river erosion has taken serious turn in Fulchhari and Shaghata upazilas of the district creating untold sufferings to the victims.According to sources, the river intensified its erosion at Kanchipara, Ratanpur,…
Flower farmers in Jessore district are counting heavy losses as the crop has been badly damaged due to incessant rainfall for the last several days.The flower growers are frustrated as the crop has started rotting in their fields. However, the…
Sudhirendar Sharma Farrukhnagar is a small town located beyond the shrinking marshes of the Sultanpur bird sanctuary, on the outskirts of the millennium city. Located 20-odd km from Gurgaon near Delhi, it is an unlikely name for a town in Haryana.…
Danielle Nierenberg The routine use of antibiotics on livestock leads to the emergence of antibiotic resistant bacteria that can impact humans. According to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), in 2010, almost 52 percent of chicken breasts tested were contaminated…
The government is actively considering gradually fortifying all food items with Vitamin A alongside edible oil to prevent the diseases caused by the deficit of the crucial vitamin. Industries Secretary M Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan on Wednesday disclosed this at a…
A mobile court mibilised by Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) fined of Tk 1 lakh to a icecream factory owner on charge of producing icecream in a unhygienic environment and damaged 15,000 pieces of ice-cream in the city’s West Nakhalpara on…
Dear Editor, Now-a-days, roof top gardening is being popular for the urban citizens in Bangladesh. As open space is so little in the cities people who loves greens are being interested to it.
The High Court on Monday asked the government to immediately take effective measures to stop within 24 hours the earth filling and dam construction works in the Gomti River in Muradnagar upazila, Comilla. An HC bench comprising Justice Kazi Reza-Ul…
A team of German and Canadian researchers have discovered areas with extremely low levels of oxygen, called dead zones, in the tropical North Atlantic, off the coast of West Africa.The levels measured in these ‘dead zones’, inhabitable for most marine…
A mild earthquake jolted Dhaka and other parts of the country again on Monday during Magreb prayers. The tremor, measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale, was felt around 6:35 pm. However, there was no immediate report of any damage or…