Tag: Bangladesh
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Creating Public Green Space on a Lake in One of the World's Densest Slums
Built on a lake in a slum in the rapidly growing city of Dhaka, the Platform of Hope is a public space, playground, library and community garden.
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Dhaka, Bangladesh to Become Next City to Require Rainwater Harvesting
The demand for water in Dhaka, Bangladesh is 2.4 billion liters a day, but the city can only produce 2.1 billion liters, according to the country's Water Supply
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New Eco-Friendly Brick Kilns Could Reduce Bangladesh's Emissions, Lower Air Pollution
Bangladesh may already have very low per capita carbon emissions but that's far more to do with poverty and low resource
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5 Million Bangladeshis Served By Solar Panels - MIllions More Coming
The evWind blog has published news that the Infrastructure Development Company has increased to 993,000 the number of Bangladeshi residential solar units that
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Bangladesh Creates 300-Strong Special Task Force to Protect Endangered Bengal Tiger
Protecting the ±400 Tigers Living in the AreaAround 400 tigers live in the Sundarbans forest that stands between Bangladesh and India. They are highly endangered and targeted by poachers, which is why, after seizing three tiger
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Rich Nations Have Moral Duty to Compensate Bangladesh for Climate Change Damages
Two pieces coming out of the Bangladeshi media drive home a sometimes uncomfortable ethical imperative regarding climate change: Considering that radical inequalities between those nations most responsible for causing climate
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The "Largest Mass Poisoning in History": Arsenic in Bangladesh
Mass poisonings due to arsenic contaminated water in Bangladesh are the tragic unintended consequence of humanitarian efforts to alleviate disease in Bangladesh by building many deep tube wells to produce water for drinking
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Climate Change 'Solves' Political Dispute As Bay of Bengal Island Vanishes Under Rising Seas
A nearly three-decade-old political dispute in the Bay of Bengal seems to have finally been resolved, though likely not in the way any of the parties
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Global Warming Hits World's Women Hardest - Especially When They Don't Have Equal Rights
It's already well known that climate change is not an equal-opportunity threat, with its impacts on food production,
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Sundarbans' Tigers Further Pushed Towards Extinction by Rising Sea Levels
Just 28 centimeters of sea level rise will eliminate 96% of remaining habitat for Bengal tigers in the Sundarbans mangroves of India and Bangladesh, likely reducing the breeding population to less than 20 individuals
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Bangladesh Reels From the Impact of Climate Change
Pulitzer Center journalist Steve Sapienza's, "Bangladesh reels from the impact of climate change," video airs 12/8, on Worldfocus.
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Dhaka, Manila & Jakarta Worst Climate-Affected Asian Mega-Cities - Hits Closer to Home Than You Might Think
Want to know which cities in Asia are going to get really whacked by climate change, and which ones have the greatest ability to adapt to it? Well, WWF has just released a new report that ranks 11 of them
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Gorillaz Artist Paints Climate Change in Bangladesh
It's one thing to sit in London and worry about climate change. It's another to visit and experience it first hand. That's what Jamie Hewlett, an animator renowned for his work with Gorillaz, the virtual band and the Tank Girl
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Bangladesh Environment Network Delivers Plea to UN: Stop Climate Change! Save Bangladesh!
Friday outside the United Nations in New York, members of the Bangladesh Environment Network and approximately 50 supporters rallied and delivered a message addressed to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, making the case that
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20 Million People in Bangladesh Displaced by Rising Seas - But Less Land Than Previously Thought Lost
In case you needed more evidence that low-lying and densely populated nations like Bangladesh are going to bear the brunt of climate change, a new report from that nation's Center for
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Design to Improve Life: The 2009 Index Award Winners
Funded by the Danish government, the Index design award claims to be the biggest in the world, and "improving life" is the name of the game. In the buildup to the announcement of the 2009 winners' circle we've posted on entrants such as the Bambulance,
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Urban Poor in Developing Nations Particularly Badly Hit by Rising Food Prices, Climate Change
Scientists have been highlighting the risk to global food production due to climate change for some time, but a new study from Purdue University quantifies some of the worst effects. Looking at rising grain prices due
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Bangladesh Gets $19 Million from US & Germany for Reforestation Project
A couple weeks ago Bangladesh's environment minister outlined how the
