Despite continued success in addressing global climate change impacts, the challenges for disaster and climate risk reduction remain formidable in Bangladesh due to increasing the intensity and complexity of disasters.
Wildlife experts said that the government should focus on conserving the existing number of tigers rather than trying to increase the number as proposed by last year
The government has started to try to build public opinion in favour of open-pit coal extraction from the deposits located in the northern districts, in particular the Phulbari coalmine.
It has also started developing a mining town in Dinajpur close to the coal deposits in Phulbari and Barapukuria.
Environment activists on Wednesday said that poor nations like Bangladesh became the worst sufferers of climate change because of wanton emission of green house gases by the developed countries, particularly by the G-8 countries.
The mission director for United States Agency for International Development, Denise Rollins, has said the agency will continue its assistance in conserving the Sundarban.
She was addressing a workshop in Dhaka on Tuesday organised by the government to discuss ways the government, donor partners and the private sector could work together to conserve the wetlands and forests of Bangladesh, partic
The cabinet committee on economic affairs at a meeting on Monday approved the proposal to sign the Production Sharing Contract with ConocoPhillips for oil and gas exploration and extraction in the Bay of Bengal, said Cabinet Division joint secretary Mohammad Nurul Karim.
Petrobangla will now send the proposal to the energy ministry for final approval of the prime minister who also holds the cha
The Department of Environment on Sunday fined two textile industries Tk 50.84 lakh in the Kalurghat industrial area of the Chittagong city on charge of polluting the River Karnaphuli.
A DoE team, led by its director (enforcement) Munir Chowdhury, fined the Sunji Textile Limited Tk 22.84 lakh as it was found releasing untreated chemical wastes into the river keeping its treatment plant off.
The present Water Body Policy is flawed and as a result it has failed to ensure justice for the people concerned, the chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on land ministry, AKM Mozzamel Haque, said.
The government is making a water law with a provision for a maximum five years in jail and Tk 500,000 in fines or both for misusing water.
The Water Resources Council cleared the draft Bangladesh Water Act 2010 at a meeting on Sunday, the water resources minister, Ramesh Chandra Sen, told the media.
The council also formed a four-strong committee led by the WARPO director general, Makbul Hos
