Dhaka, 30 April, 2020: (Gray News) – Pet owners likely have some questions since a pug in North Carolina tested positive for coronavirus, having contracted it from their family. Yes, pets can catch the coronavirus from humans, as happened to some zoo animals in New York, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said animals aren’t a […]
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Dhaka, 30 April, 2020: These are trying times. In addition to all of the small worries parents carry around daily, we’ve now added coronavirus and all the unknowns that come with this unprecedented time. Many parents are going through their days in a state of heightened anxiety. Some parents are beginning to make difficult decisions about […]
Dhaka, April 29, 2020: “Any threat to our environment is a threat to our health, our society, our ecosystems, our economy, our security, our well-being and our very survival,” says a ministerial declaration of the United Nations Environment Assembly. In the post COVID-19 era, restoring degraded drylands across vast swathes of Africa could make a major […]
Dhaka, 28 April, 2020: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will soon issue a regulation governing how carbon dioxide emissions from wood burned for energy (“biomass”) will be regulated under the Clean Air Act. Depending on who you ask, biomass is either worse than fossil fuels and helps to destroy our forests, or it is a climate friendly […]
Dhaka, 28 April, 2020: “If you watch the news and see the empty streets, it looks like doomsday. But we have to bear in mind that we are not all going to die.” “Most people won’t be very ill from this disease and things will get back [to normal],” Ben-Zion reassured participants in a mental-health […]
(CNN) Life under coronavirus means staying home as much as possible — but you'll likely need to make a trip to the grocery store or pharmacy at some point. With the help of physicians and infectious disease experts, we built a tip sheet to make sure you don't bring the virus back with you. You can download a printable […]
Dhaka, 27 April, 2020: In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, health organizations around the globe continue to highlight the importance of physical distancing, hand washing, and disinfecting everyday items, such as clothes. COVID-19 is the disease that the virus SARS-CoV-2 causes. “Co” refers to corona, “vi” to virus, “d” to disease, and 19 to […]
Dhaka, 27 April, 2020: FLAMES “30 to 40 feet high” tore through gorse near Sway and destroyed an acre of land yesterday (Thursday) afternoon. Fire crews from Lyndhurst, Brockenhurst and Burley rushed to Forestry England land opposite Pitmore Lane just after 11am. “Approximately one acre of gorse was 100% destroyed by fire,” a spokesman for Hampshire Fire and […]
ঢাকা, ২৭ এপ্রিল, ২০২০: মৌসুম বদলের এই সময়ে প্রতিবছরই শিশুরা জ্বর, সর্দিকাশি বা ফ্লুতে আক্রান্ত হয়। এবার এর সঙ্গে যোগ হয়েছে করোনাভাইরাসের সংক্রমণের আতঙ্ক। শিশুদের ক্ষেত্রে করোনার উপসর্গ হয় মৃদু। তবে অনেক শিশুই নীরব বাহক। অর্থাৎ তেমন উপসর্গ না থাকলেও সে ভাইরাসটি পরিবারের অন্যদের মধ্যে ছড়িয়ে দিচ্ছে। শিশুরা আক্রান্ত হলে সাধারণত জ্বর, সর্দি, কাশির উপসর্গ […]
Dhaka, April 26, 2020: The air quality of Dhaka showed signs of improvement on Sunday morning. The capital was ranked 18th worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) with a score of 96, around 8:25am. The air quality was classified as ‘moderate’. Pakistan’s Lahore, Indonesia's Jakarta, and China’s Shenzhen occupied the first three spots in […]