Earth Day’s Gone Digital. Here’s Where to Find It.

Dhaka, April 22, 2020: New York offers many ways to celebrate online. You can hike, play environmental games, conduct experiments, meet scientists and blast into space — all without leaving home.  It seems hard to celebrate the natural world when you’re sheltering in place. But even though many Earth Day events have been canceled, several […]

Earth Day 2020: Reduce your environmental impact by switching accounts

Dhaka, April 22, 2020: In most years Earth Day is a coming-together of people in a bid to alter the course of climate change. The world’s largest environmental movement conjures images of mass rallies, of pictures snapped in stunning exotic landscapes. Last year, as if foretelling the chaos that the wet market trafficking of a […]

The science behind why masks help prevent COVID-19 spread

Dhaka, April 22, 2020: Using laser beams and a high-speed, high-sensitivity camera to “see” the tiny droplets which are produced when we cough, it can be seen that when a mask is properly worn, little or no droplets are released into the atmosphere. The experiment was conducted by scientists from the Agency for Science, Technology […]

Protect your children through following tips

Children’s story book released to help children and young people cope with COVID-19

Dhaka, April 21, 2020: A new story book that aims to help children understand and come to terms with COVID-19 has been produced by a collaboration of more than 50 organizations working in the humanitarian sector, including the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the International […]

Experts provide tips on behavior change in children during COVID-19

Dhaka, April 21, 2020: With the extension of the stay-at-home orders across the U.S, people everywhere are feeling the impacts, including children. "I think people are starting to recognize that social distancing is going to last a lot longer than we initially thought. It's normal to feel anxious, upset, and sad over everything we sort […]

Dhaka ranks 6th worst

Dhaka, April 21, 2020: Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka ranked sixth worst in the Air Quality Index Sunday morning. It had an AQI score of 145 at 8:30am. The air was classified as ‘unhealthy for sensitive groups’. China’s Shenyang and Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh occupied the first and second spots in the list of cities with worst air […]

Coastal erosion threatens marine environment: CNS

Dhaka, April 21, 2020: Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS) Admiral Zafar Mahmood Abbasi has warned that marine environment is threatened by coastal erosion and degradation of marine ecosystem. Depleting mangroves not only affect coastal biodiversity but also the livelihood of our coastal communities. In a message on the occasion of Pakistan Navy mangroves plantation […]

করোনার এই সময়ে শিশুর টিকা

ঢাকা, ২১ এপ্রিল, ২০২০: করোনাভাইরাস সংক্রমণ প্রতিরোধে এখন ঘরে থাকছেন বেশির ভাগ মানুষ। কিন্তু এই অবরুদ্ধ সময়ের মধ্যেই পেরিয়ে যাচ্ছে অনেক শিশুর টিকা দেওয়ার নির্ধারিত সময়। এতে বাবা–মায়েরা উদ্বিগ্ন রয়েছেন। বিশেষ করে নবজাতক শিশুদের ক্ষেত্রে দুশ্চিন্তা বেশি। কারণ, তাদের টিকা এখনো শুরুই করা যায়নি। শিশুর জীবনের প্রথম টিকাটি হলো বিসিজি বা যক্ষ্মার টিকা। জন্মের ১৪ দিনের মধ্যে […]

Corona Virus Public Awareness Campaign

Dhaka, April 20, 2020: We're all affected by #COVID2019 pandemic. It's an unprecedented health challenge. Our Clean & Green volunteers and staff come together to help fight it. With the support of UNICEF Pakistan and Ministry of Climate Change, they reached out to more than 1,000 locals in Islamabad shared live-saving COVID-19 prevention tips. Raising […]