Environment
Mayor Atiq Urges More Tree Planting to Tackle Climate Risk
Dhaka North City Corporation mayor Atiqul Islam has called for planting more trees to tackle climate risk, warning that building on felled trees threatens the city's environment.
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Conserving Biodiversity Is Everyone's Constitutional Duty, Says Minister
Environment minister Md Shahab Uddin said protecting the country's biodiversity is a constitutional obligation of every citizen of Bangladesh.
Environment
Make Full Use of Government Allocations to Protect the Environment, Says Minister
Minister Md Shahab Uddin told award-winning officials to use government allocations fully for environmental protection and tree planting.
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Work Under Way to Curb Climate Change's Impact on Health
Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Md Shahab Uddin says the government is working tirelessly to counter the adverse effects of climate change on human health, animals, livestock and biodiversity.
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Penguins Starving in the Atlantic, Thousands of Bodies Wash Ashore
More than 2,000 Magellanic penguins, most of them young, have washed up dead on Uruguay's Atlantic coast, apparently from starvation.
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Mayor Rezaul Urges Tree Planting as Directed by the Prime Minister
Chattogram City Corporation mayor Md Rezaul Karim Chowdhury has called on people to plant trees, as the Prime Minister has directed, to tackle climate change.
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Coca-Cola Distributes 20,000 Saplings for Environmental Awareness in Mymensingh
Coca-Cola Bangladesh Beverages has handed more than 20,000 saplings to institutions in Mymensingh division in a tree-planting and environmental awareness programme.
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Bangladesh Must Not Suffer From Climate Change: Prime Minister
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged people to plant trees to protect Bangladesh from the adverse effects of climate change.
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Bonayan Wins SDG Award in Climate and Environment Category
Bonayan, which runs the country's largest private-sector tree-planting programme, has won the SDG Brand Champion Award in the climate and environment category.
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Asia-Pacific Leaders Pledge to Keep Global Warming to 1.5 Degrees Celsius
Top leaders of Asia and the Pacific issued a final warning on global warming and pledged to hold the rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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Wetlands and Forests Shrink as Warming and Drought Rise in Bangladesh
Bangladesh's seasons are shifting fast, and experts blame both global climate change and the local loss of wetlands, forests and greenery.
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Farmers Must Come Forward to Protect the Environment and Forests: Environment Minister
Environment Minister Md Shahab Uddin called on farmers to lead efforts to protect the country's hills, forests and waterbodies as free aus seed and fertiliser were distributed in Moulvibazar.
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The Earth's Lungs Are 22 Per Cent Gone: How Much Longer for Ours?
A Rajshahi University professor argues that wildfires, carbon emissions and wasteful consumption are destroying the Earth's lungs while the pandemic attacks our own.