Bangladesh Green News

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...

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...

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...