Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu on Saturday underscored the need for adopting environment-friendly sustainable development policies fitted with Information Communication Technology (ICT) to face the climate change challenges. The minister was speaking at the inauguration of 2nd National Conference on…
The next big thing in solar energy could be microscopic. Scientists at MIT and Harvard University have devised a way to store solar energy in molecules that can then be tapped to heat homes, water or used for cooking.
The Belgian director of Africa’s oldest national park – Virunga in the Democratic Republic of Congo – has been shot and wounded in an ambush.
The Kazakhs of the Altai mountain range in western Mongolia are the only people that hunt with golden eagles, and today there are around 400 practising falconers. Ashol-Pan, the daughter of a particularly celebrated hunter, may well be the country’s…
Signs have been detected that a periodic warming of the tropical Pacific known as El Nino is imminent, presaging changes to global weather patterns in the months ahead, the World Meteorological Organization said.
The combination of fire and extreme weather could accelerate tree mortality in the Amazon, a study has suggested.
A long-awaited UN report on how to curb climate change says the world must rapidly move away from carbon-intensive fuels.
Climate scientists meeting in Berlin have been accused of “marginalising” the views of developing countries.
A volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean has merged with its neighbour to form one landmass, the US space agency says.
Australia’s air safety body is looking into reports that a triathlete has been injured by a falling drone.
Patna: Experts from Bangladesh and different parts of the country participated in the symposium jointly organized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Patna University, and University of Chittagong, Bangladesh, on Saturday. As many as 47 participants discussed…
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Currently, Dhaka WASA has a daily surplus of 17 crore litres of water, LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Syed Ashraful Islam told Parliament on Thursday. The Dhaka WASA has achieved a daily production capacity of 242 crore liters of water against…
First Fukushima evacuees return to exclusion-zone homes The first group of Fukushima evacuees have returned to their homes, three years after the disaster at the nuclear power plant.
The UN’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled that Japan must temporarily halt its whaling programme in the Antarctic.
Plans to expand shale gas “fracking” in the UK must learn from leaks and poor monitoring at existing onshore oil and gas sites, scientists say.
Bangkok — Thailand’s military said Tuesday that its radar detected a plane that may have been Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 just minutes after the jetliner’s communications went down, and that it didn’t share the information with Malaysia earlier because it…
Scientists believe they have detected the first liquid waves on the surface of another world.
GreenWatch Report Water professionals and experts at a day-long consultation in Dhaka on Saturday felt the need for conservation and harnessing of surface water with a view to ensuing sustainable development in water related sectors. They said that a section…
Los Angeles — California regulators Thursday approved a plan for two utilities to develop replacement power to help fill the void left by the closure of the San Onofre nuclear power plant, but environmentalists warned it could open the way…
Healthy home alert! To save money, protect your health, and help the environment, give these toxic tenants an eviction notice.
Bonn – U.N. climate negotiations resumed on a shaky footing on Monday as some delegates questioned how the meeting was being run amid calls for more urgency at the talks, which after two years have made scant progress towards a…
Forty-two African migrants have drowned when their boat capsized off the coast of Yemen, according to officials.
Scientists have identified four new man-made gases that are contributing to the depletion of the ozone layer.
Sunday’s Oscars ceremony, hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, was watched by 43 million TV viewers in the US.
It’s been known for a long time that livestock, primarily cows, pigs, and sheep, emit a lot of pollutants into the atmosphere. Just last week, a build-up of methane in a barn in Germany ignited and exploded, although the barn’s…
Washington — Man-made global warming is worsening and will disrupt both the natural world and human society, warns a joint report of two of the world’s leading scientific organizations.
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,…
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.