Experts from Bangladesh and different parts of the country participated in the symposium jointly organised by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), PatnaUniversity, and University of Chittagong, Bangladesh, on Saturday.
As many as 47 participants discussed trans-boundary issues related to the biodiversity of the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) river system.
The objective of the symposium was to improve and integrate the water regimes in South Asia. State environment and...
Challenges such as extreme weather, rising seas and worsening scarcity of drinking water are forcing many Asian governments to confront the changes being wrought by a warming planet even as some point to rich Western nations as major culprits.
Millions of people in the region have already been displaced by floods and droughts thought related to global warming, a United Nations scientific panel said in a report meant to guide policymakers and form the foundation for a new climate treaty due next year.
Experts say Asia and the South Pa...
When a powerful storm destroyed her riverside home in 2009, Jahanara Khatun lost more than the modest roof over her head. In the aftermath, her husband died and she became so destitute that she sold her son and daughter into bonded servitude. And she may lose yet more.
Ms. Khatun now lives in a bamboo shack that sits below sea level about 50 yards from a sagging berm. She spends her days collecting cow dung for fuel and struggling to grow vegetables in soil poisoned by salt water. Climate scientists predict that this area will be inundated as sea levels rise and storm surges increase, and a cyclone or another disaster could easily wipe away her rebuilt life. But Ms. Khatun is trying to hold out at least for a while — one of millions living on ...
The government needs to make sure that the scanty reserve of fresh groundwater along the coastal districts is not over exploited for agriculture so that it could help resolve the drinking water crisis the people of those areas have long been facing, experts say.
“This freshwater in the coastal region must be preserved to meet the demand for safe drinking water. It should not be used for irrigation or commercial purposes, as the aquifers take a century or even centuries to be recharged with fresh water,” said hydro-geologists Anwar Zahid.
Bangladesh on Tuesday asked BIMSTEC countries to take a "unified" stand and seriously consider the adverse impact of climate change keeping in mind global assessments that indicate an increase in the frequency and intensity of natural disasters in the region.
Addressing the 3rd BIMSTEC Summit here, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said that to ensure unimpeded development, there was need to "mobilize collective efforts to monitor, and take unified stand to seriously consider the adverse impacts of climate change".
China has donated 50 ambulances and calamity rescue equipment to the country's Fire Service and Civil Defense as a token of friendship of the Chinese people towards Bangladesh.
Li Jun, Chinese ambassador to Bangladesh, handed over the ambulances and calamity rescue equipment to the Bangladesh authorities in a ceremony on Tuesday morning, reports Xinhua.
Bangladeshi State-Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan, while thanking and expressing gratitude to the Chinese government and its people for the ...
