A regional human rights group today called for suspension of Rampal plant’s construction in the Sundarbans and urged for an impartial impact assessment. South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR) said their probe found the project will leave an “irreparable damage” to the world’s largest mangrove forest. The organisation revealed their findings in a report form […]
Relive those summer beach holidays this weekend and at the same time volunteer for the Great British Beach Clean and help protect wildlife and the coastline Summer is rapidly becoming a memory, but there is still time for one more visit to the beach this weekend. Because not only is it a magical place to […]
Golf courses, landfills, and parka pockets become unlikely power sources with the advent of smarter solar. Solar installations like this one on Sakasamaike Pond in Kasai, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, are redefining the idea of what makes good real estate for sun power. Breathtaking desert expanses of panels and mirrors mark solar energy’s growth, but renewables’ next […]
Pollution, industrial fishing and climate change have killed off half of marine life in the last four decades, according to a WWF report released yesterday. Species essential to global food supply — especially in poorer nations where fish provide essential dietary protein — were among the hardest hit, the conservation group’s Living Blue Planet Report […]
Bangladesh Dental Society (BDS) and Environment and Social Development Organization – ESDO urged the government to frame policies in order to ban mercury dental amalgam in Bangladesh by 2016.Syed Marghub Murshed, former Secretary of Government of Bangladesh and Chairperson of ESDO and Dr. Humayun Kabir Bulbul, the newly elected President of BDS demanded in a […]
New research predicts a stunning meltoff of the Antarctic Ice Sheet if all of the world’s accessible fossil fuel is burned. New York City would be swallowed by the ocean. Tokyo and Shanghai, too, would vanish. Sea levels stand to rise by a staggering 164 feet (50 meters) or more if the world goes for […]
দক্ষিণ আফ্রিকায় একটি সমাধি গুহা থেকে হোমো নালেডি নামের একটি প্রাচীন প্রজাতির দেহাবশেষ আবিষ্কার করেছেন গবেষকেরা। এটির বৈশিষ্ট্যের সঙ্গে মানুষের আদি প্রজাতির মিল অনেক। বিজ্ঞানীরা গতকাল বৃহস্পতিবার বলেন, এ আবিষ্কারের ফলে মানুষের ক্রমবিকাশের গবেষণায় নতুন মাত্রা যোগ হয়েছে। খবর এএফপি, রয়টার্স ও বিবিসির। জোহানেসবার্গের কাছাকাছি ওই গুহায় জীবাশ্ম বা ফসিল হিসেবে যেসব হাড় মিলেছে, সেগুলো […]
UN officials have reacted sharply to criticism from their Secretary General that climate talks are going at a “snail’s pace”.Ban Ki-moon has been concerned that the negotiations are moving too slowly to deliver a new global deal in December. His views were echoed by many delegates at this latest meeting in Germany. But one of […]
Floods have destroyed crops on nearly 2.75 lakh hectares of land in 29 districts, causing losses to thousands of farmers, according to the Department of Agricultural Extension. About 95 percent of the affected crops are aman, with some farmers saying that losses from the floods would be huge. Bangladesh experienced more rains than usual this […]
Zambian villagers are taking a multinational copper mining firm to court in the UK, accusing it of poisoning their water. The BBC’s Nomsa Maseko visited the area which has allegedly been polluted. Dressed in colourful sarongs and t-shirts, the women of Hippo Pool village collect their water on the banks of the Kafue River on […]
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