An Australian student has filed a lawsuit against her government for failing to make clear climate change-related risks to investors in government bonds. It is thought to be the first such case in the world. Katta O’Donnell, 23, filed the civil action in the Federal Court on Wednesday. A spokesperson …
Read More »Local birds raises on the footing of Poultry industry
Is therIs there a correlation between the rise of the industrial-scale poultry industry and the slowdown of wild bird poaching in Bangladesh? It is surprising as some villagers said there is a deep connection between the two seemingly uncorrelated events. Industrial poultry farming grew to be an established industry in …
Read More »Poaching of Sundarbans spotted deer undaunted by pandemic
Poaching of the famed spotted deer has by now become a fixture violating the Sundarbans ecosystem, beyond the reach of state-led, often multilateral initiatives to clamp down on this transnational criminal enterprise. Side-by-side with the economic fallout due to the Coronavirus, and taking advantage of it as well as other …
Read More »Deforestation marks a decline, remains a concern
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Tuesday said the rate of loss has declined substantially over the past three decades although some 178 million hectares of forest has been lost worldwide during this period.The highest net gain of forest area in 2010-2020 was found in Asia.The finding comes …
Read More »Tiger population at risk in Sundarbans
38 tigers died in the last 20 years so far in Bangladesh part of the Sundarbans. Within a gap of five months, the Forest Department found two dead tigers one in the Sundarbans West Andharmanki Forest Camp area and the other in the Sundarban West Division area. The Forest Department …
Read More »Swarms of locusts reach outskirts of Delhi
Swarms of crop-destroying desert locusts invaded the outskirts of Indian Capital city Delhi on Saturday. The clusters of desert locusts were seen covering the skyline. Witnesses said they watched the swarms moving in clusters in the sky outside their building and many people recorded the videos of the swarms from …
Read More »One-fifth of Earth’s ocean floor is mapped
The initiative which was taken to galvanize the creation of a full map of Earth’s ocean floor has become a big success. One-fifth of this task has now been completed. When the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project was launched in 2017, only 6% of the global ocean bottom had been …
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