India’s draft groundwater guidelines to ‘destroy’ the resource
The Ministry of Water Resources of the Union Government of India has on Oct 11,…
Browsing: Think green
Unep-Rabobank $1 billion program for sustainable food supply
Hong Kong, China – Oct 17 – Rabobank, the world’s leading food and agricultural bank,…
South Africa’s Rhino Paradox
Johannesburg – Earlier this year, South Africa’s Constitutional Court overturned a 2009 moratorium on trade…
Leave no one behind: Disaster resilience for sustainable dev
Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2017 from UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific…
Biotech part of solution to Africa’s food insecurity
By Miriam Gathigah Nairobi, Oct 12 (IPS) – A growing number of African countries is…
Movement against channelling the Brahmaputra mulled
Dhaka – Water activists of Bangladesh and Northeast India at a consultation meeting in Dhaka…
Global Green Growth Week 2017 to kick off in Addis Ababa
By IPS World Desk Addis Ababa, Oct 9 (IPS) – The Global Green Growth Week…
World running out of antibiotics: WHO report confirms
A report – Antibacterial agents in clinical development – an analysis of the antibacterial clinical…
Eskayef’s Rohingya relief operation
-Prof. M Zahidul Haque Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina while recently visiting the Rohingya refugee camp…
A world without exhaust pipes
Monica Araya The growing popularity of electric vehicles is set to curb one of the…
‘Ken-Betwa project is disaster for Ken Basin People’
In a series of letters that then collector of Panna district wrote when she was…
US states declare emergency ahead of Tropical Storm Nate
Mexico City, Oct 7 (AP/UNB) – Tropical Storm Nate gained force as it sped toward…
19 Unique and innovative farm-to-school programmes
Danielle Nierenberg October is national Farm-to-School Month in the United States. It’s a time to…
Rohingya: Walk a mile in their shoes
Nahar Khan My reminiscences of Cox’s Bazar are deeply rooted in my childhood during family…
Gomti banks in Comilla offer new tourist attractions
Dhaka, Oct 5–The banks of the River Gomti with several small entertainment centres dotting the…
Making an economic case for climate action
By Tharanga Yakupitiyage UN, Oct 2 (IPS) – Having faced a year of record temperatures…
Iran nuclear deal could win the Nobel Peace Prize
By Mikael Holter The main facilitators of the 2015 accord on Iran’s nuclear program, slammed…
WFP chief says world must step up Rohingya aid
Cox’s Bazar, Oct 1 (AP/UNB) — The head of the United Nations’ food-assistance agency on…
‘Yarn Bank’ helping BD’s ethnic women to earn more
GreenWatch Dhaka with Rafiqul Islam, UNB Staff Writer Dhaka, Sept 29 – A community-based ‘Yarn…
Can circular economy really make world more sustainable?
John Mulrow Imagine that 100 percent of the recyclable materials that are currently headed for…
Shun loan-based mega projects for nature-friendly uplift
Dhaka – Speakers at a seminar on Thursday called upon the policymakers to think about…
Sound pollution turns alarming in Dhaka City
Dhaka, Sept 28 – Sound pollution has turned acute in the capital city as the…
Public-private partnerships as the answer . . . what was the question?
By Manuel F. Montes New York, Sep 26 (IPS) – In discussions at the UN…
Where do 50 million tonnes a year of toxic e-waste go?
By Baher Kamal ROME, Sep 27 (IPS) – Each year, the electronics industry generates up…
ASEAN at 50. What’s Next?
– Jayant Menon and Anna Cassandra Melendez The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has…
Do people really need interlinking of rivers?
SANDRP Report In the detailed piece, Himanshu Thakkar rightly says that the river interlinking project…
World Tourism day Tuesday: Eye on Sustainability
Bangladesh will celebrate the World Tourism Day on Wednesday with daylong colourful programmes under the…
Stop persecution of Rohingya, ICSF tells Myanmar
It calls on India, China to persuade Myanmar to resolve crisis Dhaka, Sept – International…
Election win for Merkel not feel like much of a victory
By Jenny Hill BBC Berlin correspondent Angela Merkel looked exhausted, strained, as she arrived at…
Rivers Day: Revival of dying rivers must for sustainability
Dhaka, Sept 24 – The severe floods that devastated the Bangladesh’s 27 districts are a…