Up to 20 million Bangladeshis may be forced to leave the country in the next 40 years because of climate change , one of the country's most senior politicians has said. Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, Bangladesh 's finance minister, called...
Rangpūr :: Bangladesh
| updated Sat Dec 05 09:06:36 -0800 2009
| green-news
If the pictures taken right from the fields are something to go by, Bangladeshi farmers are taking all sorts of cope-up measures -- locally developed or based on scientific inventions-- to fight back the global warm up. Agronomists fear sea...
Disaster-prone Bangladesh will need $10 billion from big polluting nations to help it adapt to powerful storms, floods and rising seas, chief of the parliamentary standing committee on environment and forests said. Bangladesh, one of the world's most densely populated...
Sudden exposure of the situation in Kalenga by The Daily Star has driven this gang to impose restrictions on the sole private guesthouse of the area. According to sources in Kalenga, outsiders cannot rent the guesthouse without their "permission". On...
According to officials, the wholesale felling of the trees was carried out with instructions from some local influential people who would like to set up three to four ship breaking yards at the clear cut section of the forest. On...
Man-made ponds and rice fields irrigated using groundwater may be responsible for arsenic contamination of groundwater in Bangladesh, a study has found. Arsenic is a naturally occurring chemical poisonous to humans and is known to cause skin lesions and cancers...
Almost 10 percent of the population are internal migrants, the ratio more than quadrupling over the past six decades, a Dhaka University professor said Saturday. "Internal migration occurs in 9.6 percent of the population," Prof AKM Nurunnabi of the population...
I don't want to say anything more about it now,� she said while addressing a reception accorded in her honour by the Italy chapter of ruling Awami League at Oriental Hall at Piazza Ri Di of the Italian capital Rome...
The PDB has proposed coastal belt area Anwara and Kutubdia in Chittagong to install the power plant. However, the PDB also placed a separate proposal to install four separate solar power plants having capacity between 10MW and 25MW at four...
Barguna :: Bangladesh
| updated Sat Dec 05 16:29:24 -0800 2009
| green-news
Their fate as adults will be dominated by the shifting weather patterns their parents are starting to confront Joana and Armando de Oliveira with their daughter Fretelina. They are the citizens of tomorrow and each faces a grim and uncertain...
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