The environment and forests minister, Hasan Mahmud, has urged the civil society to come forward to help the government cope with the adverse impacts of climate change.
The state-run Infrastructure Development Company Limited will install 1.50 lakh biogas plants across the country through its associate organisations to reduce the use of biomass in kitchens by 2016
Australian scientists who modelled conditions on Mars to examine how much of the red planet was habitable said Monday that ‘large regions’ could sustain life.
Six air-quality monitoring stations will start operation in January 2012 to keep records of the levels of air pollution in different parts of the country under the Clean Air and Sustainable Environ
Molten nuclear fuel at Japan’s Fukushima plant might have eaten two thirds of the way through a concrete containment base, its operator said, citing a new simulation of the extent of the March disa
Tens of thousands of HIV-affected households in Asia are facing ‘irreversible poverty’ because of the cost of living with the disease, with women and children hardest hit, a UN report said Thursday
Devastating floods in Thailand and other parts of Asia are a wake-up call to governments to do more to cope with the effects of climate change, a top Asian Development Bank official has warned.
Days of increasingly violent environmental protests forced the suspension Tuesday of a $4.8-billion gold mining project in northern Peru operated by US mining giant Newmont, the mine said.
Oil spillage from a foreign vassal contaminated more than one squire kilometre area of the Bay of Bengal at the outer anchorage of Chittagong Port on Wednesday.
