Professionals demand for Policies to ban import and use of Lead Dryer, Pigment and Cromate

ESDO and BPMA support to phase out lead in household decorative paints and urged the government to formulate a policy. Lead based paint in Bangladesh have been creating serious environmental and public health problem. They also demanded a standard of safe limit and third party certification for local and international paints to marketing in Bangladesh. […]

Bangladesh Uncovers the Crippling Cost of Climate Change Adaptation

With a population of 140 million, Bangladesh is one of the world’s most populated countries. It is also one of the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Cyclones, floods and droughts have long been part of the country’s history but they have intensified in recent years. As a result of the long exposure […]

Warming climate found to increase hybridization in Western Trount

Scientists have discovered that the rapid spread of hybridization between a native species and an invasive species of trout in the wild is strongly linked to changes in climate. In the study, stream temperature warming over the past several decades and decreases in spring flow over the same time period contributed to the spread of […]

দ্বিগুণ হারে গলছে এন্টার্কটিকার বরফ

এন্টার্কটিকায় এখন বরফ গলছে বছরে ১৬ হাজার কোটি টন হারে। এন্টার্কটিকায় বরফ গলার সর্বশেষ হিসাবের চেয়ে এ হার দ্বিগুণ বেশি। নতুন এ তথ্য প্রকাশ করেছে ইউরোপের ক্রায়োস্যাট মহাকাশযান। বরফ স্তরের আকৃতি পরিমাপের জন্য এ যানের রয়েছে বিশেষ ধরনের রাডার। এন্টার্কটিকা থেকে গলা বরফই বিশ্বে সমুদ্রস্তরের উচ্চতা বছরে প্রায় ০ দশমিক ৪৩ মিলিমিটার বাড়িয়ে দিতে পারে। ‘জিওগ্রাফিক্যাল […]

Inside the Looming Food Crisis

We don’t worry much about food, especially when it is plentiful and cheap. Only when prices rise do we we pay much attention to any potential problems with the food supply. In the United States food has been relatively cheap for decades—typically costing less than 10 percent of our income—so we often take it for granted. Perhaps we […]

Carbon Dioxide pushing weather around in the southern hemisphere

So why is Antarctica is not warming as much as other continents, and why are there more droughts in southern Australia? According to new Antarctic ice core research published in Nature Climate Change, rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are intensifying the Southern Ocean winds, which are known to deliver rain to southern Australia, but […]

E-Waste in Bangladesh

Indian Nuclear Plant Accident Injures Six Workers

Three employees at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant and three contract workers were injured today after hot water spilled from a valve during maintenance work at the new and controversial facility in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. No radiation leak was reported. The government-run Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited, NPCIL, dismissed reports that […]

Antarctic glacier melt is unstoppable

A set of West Antarctic glaciers has now entered terminal melt. Two studies reveal that the glaciers are on an irreversible path to liquefying and stand to raise global sea levels by around 4 meters in coming centuries. Using two decades of satellite observations of six glaciers in West Antarctica, researchers led by Eric Rignot […]

UN environment program aims to boost influence in the push for a global green economy

he United Nations Environment Program aims to dramatically increase its role in running the world according to nebulous environmental principles, according to a strategic plan that will be presented to the U.N. General Assembly this fall. The principal objective of the plan is to “catalyze a transition” to a radical new global green economy, based on […]