For Bill Gates, toilets are serious business. The billionaire philanthropist kicked off the Reinvented Toilet Expo in China and unveiled a new toilet that does not require water or sewers, and uses chemicals to turn human waste into fertilizer, Reuters reported. "We are all here for one reason: because more than half the world's population […]
Rice dies within days of complete submergence, resulting in total crop loss. These losses affect rice farmers in rainfed and flood-affected areas where alternative livelihoods are limited. Therefore, the incidences and severity of poverty in these areas are high. For More:http://irri.org/our-impact/increase-food-security/flood-tolerant-rice-saves-farmers-livelihoods
The results of Tuesday’s elections could have a significant influence on how the United States deals with global warming in several ways.In the Trump era, much of the action to fight climate change has been happening in the state level. On that front, the results were mixed: Several key climate policies on the ballot, including […]
ঢাকার প্রধান সড়কগুলোতে চলাচলকারী প্রায় সব ধরনের যানবাহন চালকরা ট্রাফিক আইন ভঙ্গ করে প্রয়োজনে-অপ্রয়োজনে হর্ন বাজান। এ ব্যাপারে তারা কোনো কিছুরই তোয়াক্কা করেন না। ট্রাফিক জ্যামে গাড়ি স্থির দাঁড়িয়ে থাকলেও তারা হর্ন বাজিয়ে যান। আবার রাজধানীর বিভিন্ন স্থানে রাতদিন নির্মাণ কাজের জন্য সৃষ্ট বাড়তি শব্দে আশপাশের মানুষের সমস্যা হলেও স্থাপনাটির মালিক বিষয়টি গায়েই লাগান না। […]
Single-use, a term referring to products – often made of plastic –that are made to be used once and thrown away, has been named Collins Dictionary’s word of the year for 2018. Collins, whose lexicographers monitor a 4.5bn-word corpus to come up with an annual list of new and notable words, said images such as […]
LED screens and lighting are behind the increasing use of melatonin to combat sleeplessness, according to Dr John Lincoln and Eleanor Levin. Dr Sally Cheseldine suggests a milky drink might help We were shocked by the revelation that over 117,000 people under 18 were given “off label” melatonin prescriptions in 2017-18 (Fears over rise in […]
A healthy soil ecosystem is needed for sustainable rice production. However, rice is very different from other crops because it is often grown in flooded fields where the soil is saturated for long periods of time. What is unique with this system, as compared with other cropping systems without soil flooding, is the maintenance of […]
Wind turbines can act as top predators in ecosystems by driving down populations of birds and triggering knock-on effects across food chains, according to a new study. Scientists found that predatory raptor birds were four times rarer in parts of an Indian mountain range covered in wind turbines, suggesting they were avoiding the structures. The same […]
The world has two years to secure a deal for nature to halt a ‘silent killer’ as dangerous as climate change, says biodiversity chief he world must thrash out a new deal for nature in the next two years or humanity could be the first species to document our own extinction, warns the United Nation’s […]
In October, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a leading international body on climate change researchers, released an alarming report. The study found that countries around the world have just 12 years to reduce global warming before it reaches catastrophic levels.Now that we know time may be running out, the question is: What can we do […]
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