BSS, RANGPUR Mayor of Rangpur City Corporation (RCC) Sarfuddin Ahmed Jhantu has directed all concerned for ensuring quality of the infrastructural development works in the city. Jhantu said this while launching construction of the concrete road from Koilashranajan High School…
Plans to generate electricity from the world’s first series of tidal lagoons have been unveiled in the UK.
The head of the UN climate change panel (IPCC), Rajendra Pachauri, has resigned amid sexual harassment allegations.
Wheat was present in Britain 8,000 years ago, according to new archaeological evidence.
Sea levels along the northeast coast of the US rose by record levels during 2009-2010, a study has found.
Scientists are tracking snails from space in a bid to combat the spread of parasitic disease in Africa.
The UK’s political leaders have pledged to work together to combat climate change, whatever the election result.
The American south-west and central plains could be on course for super-droughts the like of which they have not witnessed in over a 1,000 years.
Britain’s urban areas are home to more types of wild bee than farmland, a study has found.
Front-line transport workers largely lack awareness on how criminal networks disguise illegal wildlife products, it emerged at a summit in Bangkok.
The New Horizons probe has returned new pictures of the dwarf planet Pluto and its largest moon, Charon.
The technology behind GM crops is safe, according to scientific consensus, says the outgoing science adviser to the European Commission.
Washington, D.C.-For more than 50 years, global production of plastic has continued to rise. Some 299 million tons of plastics were produced in 2013, representing a 4 percent increase over 2012. Recovery and recycling, however, remain insufficient, and millions of…
Brazil’s Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira has said the country’s most populous region is experiencing its worst drought since 1930.
Researchers have decoded ancient recordings from fragments of an asteroid dating back billions of years to the start of the Solar System.
For the first time, words have been read from a burnt, rolled-up scroll buried by Mount Vesuvius in AD79.
By virtue of gradually rising 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.
2014 was the warmest year on record, with global temperatures 0.68C (1.24F) above the long-term average, US government scientists have said.
Washington, D.C.- As national governments flounder to resolve pressing global challenges, corporations are positioning themselves within the United Nations framework as efficient players and indispensable partners in international policy debates. But with their immense economic and political sway, can corporations…
Speakers at a day-long conference on environment in Dhaka on Saturday underlined the need for concerted efforts to ensure the implementation of laws for safeguarding the environment keeping in view the fact that those violating law become more powerful and…
Debadityo Sinha Kanhar Dam is one of those projects which is an example of how so called developments worsen the situation for the people and environment. The project conceived 37 years ago has been in abeyance since last 25 years.…
What makes a city healthy? A combination of factors, ranging from readily available healthcare to excellent mass transit to a commitment to improving access to green spaces. Taken from a number of lists in publications such as The Guardian and…
An “X-ray eye” designed to study distant galaxies and black holes has turned its attention to our own star and snapped a remarkable portrait.
Speakers at an advocacy meeting have stressed ensuring strict implementation of the Smoking and Tobacco Products Usage (Control) Actand amended the Tobacco Control Act (TCA) for a greater national interest.
Although international donor agencies are concerned about the Sunderbans, the government is still reluctant about protecting the mangrove forest and it is indeed taking steps to destroy it, said a BNP probe body in Bagerhat on Monday. “Even though the…
Chuck Bednar for redOrbit.com An oil spill from a crashed tanker is causing what officials are calling an ecological “catastrophe” in the Sundarbans mangrove region of Bangladesh, putting two rare species of dolphin and several other forms of wildlife at…
Arctic sea ice may be more resilient than many observers recognise.
Unexpectedly, for a city that is in a desert area, rain drizzled from the night-time sky over Lima early on Sunday.
The Forest Department looks fighting a losing battle to manually clean up the spilt-oil from rivers in the Sundarbans as it has already dissolved in river waters. “Most of the oil has already dissolved or spread faraway,” Divisional Forest Officer…
Talks have continued well past the official close of business on the final day of a key UN climate summit in Peru aimed at advancing a new global treaty.