Dhāka :: Bangladesh
| updated Sat Nov 21 11:04:14 -0800 2009
| green-news
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...
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...
Dhāka :: Bangladesh
| updated Sat Nov 21 08:59:11 -0800 2009
| green-news
Govt plans to stagger industrial gas supply Shamim Jahangir The government is contemplating to introduce staggering in gas supply to industries across the country after Eid-ul-Azha to save the fossil fuel. State-owned Petrobangla has already discussed about the plan with...
Sirājganj :: Bangladesh
| updated Sat Nov 21 08:59:09 -0800 2009
| green-news
He said the variability of temperature and rainfall pattern exhibit early signals of climate change. Ainun Nishat said agriculture is closely related with climatic factors. "Erratic rainfall and deviation in temperature would bring critical changes in rice farming pattern and...
Habīganj :: Bangladesh
| updated Sat Nov 21 08:58:51 -0800 2009
| green-news
BSS, Dhaka Local gas reservoir experts has rejected Chevron's claim of gas reserve figure initially and asked the International Oil Company (IOC) to submit more evidential documents to prove its claims. The local experts also asked the IOC not to...
The developed countries are mainly responsible for environmental changes but the poor and developing countries suffer the most," he said. The Minister was addressing as the chief guest at an international conference on 'Environmental challenges in the New Millennium' at...
Two years after Cyclone Sidr hit the southern coastal districts of Bangladesh, many of the survivors are still homeless and at severe risk from further disasters, officials say. Cyclone Sidr lashed the southern coastal regions of Bangladesh on 15...
Dr Huq said Bangladesh has been playing a leading role in the Least Development Countries (LDC) Group in the international climate change negotiations and should put concrete efforts on this in future. Saleemul Huq said he was still hopeful about...
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