The United Nations urged global business leaders on Wednesday to double investment in wind and solar energy to $600bn (£400bn) a year by 2020. One month after the Paris climate agreement, Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, told business leaders they needed to act decisively to hasten the transition away from the fossil fuel economy – or they […]
Jan 28 2016 | Posted in
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Some white storks have taken to spending the winter in rubbish dumps eating garbage rather than making the usual, exhausting journey south across the Sahara, scientists said on Friday.The lure of landfills is a new sign of how human influences, ranging from climate change to pollution, disrupt migratory routes for animals from turtles to elephants, […]
Jan 26 2016 | Posted in
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Recent record warm years are with extremely high likelihood caused by human-made climate change. Without greenhouse-gas emissions from burning coal and oil, the odds are vanishingly small that 13 out of the 15 warmest years ever measured would all have happened in the current, still young century. These odds are between 1 in 5000 and […]
Jan 26 2016 | Posted in
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মৃদু থেকে মাঝারি শৈত্যপ্রবাহে শীতের তীব্রতা বেড়েছে উত্তর জনপদের বেশ কয়েকটি জেলায়। ঘন কুয়াশা আর হিমেল হাওয়ায় বিপর্যস্ত হয়ে পড়েছে জনজীবন। তীব্র শীতে বাড়ছে নিউমোনিয়া, ডায়রিয়াসহ শীতজনিত রোগবালাই। দেশের সর্বনিম্ন তাপমাত্রা রেকর্ড করা হয়েছে চুয়াডাঙ্গায় ৬ দশমিক ১ ডিগ্রি সেলসিয়াস। ৪ দিন ধরে হাড় কাঁপানো শীতে দিনাজপুরসহ উত্তরাঞ্চলের কয়েকটি জেলায়। উত্তরের হিমেল হাওয়ায় ঠাণ্ডার প্রকোপ […]
Jan 26 2016 | Posted in
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With an aim of bringing down the level of pollution in Ganga, the Centre will hold a meeting with heads of all 1,657 villages situated along the river here next week.During the day-long conference ‘Ganga Swachhata – Gramin Sahabhagita’, scheduled to be held on January 30, Union Water Resources ministry will share different water management […]
Jan 25 2016 | Posted in
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An analysis of long-term, water quality monitoring data reveals that climate change is already having an impact on ecosystems in the coastal waters of Buzzards Bay, Mass. The impacts relate to how nitrogen pollution affects coastal ecosystems. Utilizing 22 years of data collected by a network of citizen scientists, researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic […]
Jan 24 2016 | Posted in
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bird species, locally common in eastern Himalaya and overlooked till now, has been identified as a new species. A team of scientists from India, Sweden, China, US and Russia have described this species from northeastern India and adjacent parts of China as Himalayan Forest Thrush.This is the first Indian bird (Zoothera salimalii), which has been […]
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Scientists reported Wednesday that 2015 was the hottest year in the historical record by far, breaking a mark set only the year before — a burst of heat that has continued into the new year and is roiling weather patterns all over the world. In the contiguous United States, the year was the second-warmest on record, punctuated by […]
Jan 21 2016 | Posted in
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Burning down forests in Africa and South-East Asia causes ozone pollution in the air as far as the western Pacific Ocean, researchers say, calling for revision of global climate models to reflect their findings. In a paper published in Nature Communications last week (13 January), the scientists say their data contradicts earlier theories on the origins of ozone-rich […]
Jan 21 2016 | Posted in
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নগরীর পরিচ্ছন্নতা কাজে ঢাকা দক্ষিণের মেয়র মোহাম্মদ সাঈদ খোকনের সঙ্গে অংশ নিলেন সাংবাদিক, অভিনয় শিল্পী ও এভারেস্টজয়ীসহ সমাজের বিভিন্ন শ্রেণী পেশার মানুষ। নগরীকে ভালোবেসে ভালোবাসা দিবসে এক ঘন্টা নগর পরিস্কার করার আহ্বান জানিয়েছেন মেয়র। মঙ্গলবার দুপুরে রাজধানীর বঙ্গবাজার মোড় সংলগ্ন প্রত্যাশা ভাস্কর্যের সামনে নগর উন্নয়ন সাংবাদিক ফোরাম আয়োজিত পরিচ্ছন্নতা কর্মসূচিতে প্রধান অতিথি হিসেবে উপস্থিত ছিলেন মেয়র সাইদ […]
Jan 20 2016 | Posted in
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