The government has taken a move to conduct a study to determine the presence of toxic heavy metals including cadmium and arsenic in rice, officials said.
Parliament on Sunday passed ‘National River Protection Commission Bill -- 2013’ aimed at protecting the country’s rivers from encroachers and pollution.
Tobacco may claim as many as 100 crore people around the world in this century unless and until the World Health Organisation’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control is implemented quickly by all
Floods triggered by onrush of water from upstream left thousands of villagers marooned and damaged crops in the northern districts of Kurigram, Lalmanirhat and Jamalpur.
The US Geological Survey reported that a magnitude 7.2 earthquake had struck northeast of Papua New Guinea, although there are no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
The government on Sunday approved 17 projects, involving Tk 98 crore, under Bangladesh Climate Change Trust Fund to cope with the adverse impacts of climate change.
A strong 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the Solomon Islands on Friday, the US Geological Survey said, but there was no immediate tsunami warning issued.
Landslides and floods triggered by several weeks of monsoon rains have killed at least 50 people in mainly remote parts of Nepal, a government official said Thursday.
Global warming accelerated since the 1970s and broke more countries’ temperature records than ever before in the first decade of the new millennium, UN climate experts said Wednesday.
