Dhaka, 8 June, 2020: An additional 6,000 children could die every day from preventable causes over the next six months as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to weaken health systems and disrupt routine services, UNICEF said today. The estimate is based on an analysis by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, newly published in […]
Dhaka, 6 June: In the post Covid-19 era, renewable energy could be the best suitable option for Bangladesh to reset its power sector development policy to come out of the obligation for capacity payment to idle power plants, says a recent study. The observation was made by the Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), a US-based […]
4th June, 2020, Dhaka: 5th June, World Environment Day 2020, “Celebrate Biodiversity”. Due to covid-19 epidemic the celebration is happening digitally and all the activities are taken place within limit all over the world. This year millions of people in more than 100 countries are celebrating World Environment Day in online platforms. Environment and Social […]
Best known to be the 1st NGO in the world to push for plastic shopping bag ban in Bangladesh way back when plastic pollution was not yet discussed anywhere else, GAIA Asia Pacific sat down with Siddika Sultana, Executive Director of ESDO, to talk about the organization’s history, their programs, and how they are coping […]
Dhaka, 4 June, 2020: Incidents of wildlife poaching in India have more than doubled during the Covid-19 lockdown with 88 animals being killed for meat and trade during this time compared to 35 in the pre-lockdown days in February, a new study has revealed. The study conducted by TRAFFIC, a wildlife trade monitoring network and […]
Dhaka, 4 June, 2020: The COVID-19 pandemic poses unprecedented challenges for agriculture and food security, and governments must take action, Raghbendra Jha writes. In 2016, even before the COVID-19 crisis, the Food and Agriculture Organization estimated that 815 million people or 10.7 per cent of the population at that time were going hungry. The Status of Food Insecurity […]
Dhaka, 3 June, 2020: One by one, they executed social distancing guidelines to minimise the risk of Covid-19 transmission. From perspex screens to increased sanitisation, grocers continued to deliver safety measures to allow customers and workers to feel safe in stores at a time when UK death rates were soaring. Now, as non-food retailers – particularly […]
ঢাকা, ৩ জুন, ২০২০: করোনাভাইরাস মূলত শ্বাসতন্ত্রে সংক্রমণ ঘটায়। তবে এর কারণে শরীরের বিভিন্ন অঙ্গ-প্রত্যঙ্গেও সমস্যা হতে পারে। পরিপাকতন্ত্রের সমস্যাও দেখা দিতে পারে। এ ক্ষেত্রে অন্যতম উপসর্গ হলো খাবারে প্রচণ্ড অরুচি, স্বাদহীনতা, ডায়রিয়া বা পাতলা পায়খানা, বমি বা বমিভাব ইত্যাদি অন্যতম। এ ছাড়া পেটে ব্যথাও হতে পারে। খাবারে অরুচি হতে পারে করোনার সংক্রমণের প্রাথমিক একটি লক্ষণ। […]
Older, carbon-rich tropical forests continue to be lost at a frightening rate, according to satellite data. Dhaka, 2 June, 2020: In 2019, an area of primary forest the size of a football pitch was lost every six seconds, the University of Maryland study of trees more than 5 metres says. Brazil accounted for a third of it, its […]
Dhaka, 2 June, 2020: The Earth is undergoing a mass extinction that could see up to a million species disappear in the coming decades – and humans are contributing heavily to this. The numbers are staggering: the population sizes of vertebrate species, which include mammals, reptiles, birds and fish, dropped by around half between 1970 and 2010. A quarter of […]
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