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Minister seeks DCs’ cooperation in protecting environment

Ocean Times News Desk: : 25 JANUARY 2023, WEDNESDAY, 18:20

DCs to take legal action against illegal brick kilns, illegal use of forest wood as fuel, banned polythene shopping bags, illegal hill-dune cutters, sawmills, forest grabbing, and water body encroachment.

15 illegal resorts asked to halt construction work in St Martin’s Island

Oceantimes Desk : 8 JANUARY 2023, SUNDAY, 5:51

Local administration has conducted a drive at St Martin’s Island and asked 15 illegal resorts to halt the construction work yesterday…

Tk 95 lakh washing away

Oceantimes Desk : 2 JANUARY 2023, MONDAY, 18:03

In September, geo bags were placed within 300 metres of Karkhana river in Patuakhali’s Baufal upazila to protect from river erosion.

Climate change could turn some blue lakes to green or brown

Oceantimes Desk : 13 DECEMBER 2022, TUESDAY, 8:56

Some picturesque blue lakes may not be so blue in the future, thanks to climate change. In the first global tally of lake color, researchers…

All regions in the world saw water extremes in 2021: UN

Oceantimes Desk : 8 DECEMBER 2022, THURSDAY, 6:06

All regions of the world saw water extremes last year — both floods and droughts — and billions of people had insufficient freshwater, the United Nations said on Tuesday…

What Bangladesh must do now as a global climate leader

Dr Saleemul Huq : 8 DECEMBER 2022, THURSDAY, 5:39

The recent agreement by all countries to establish a new fund for loss and damage from human-induced climate change at COP27 was a simple recognition of an unfortunate

2,500 seals found dead in Russia’s Dagestan

Oceantimes desk : 7 DECEMBER 2022, WEDNESDAY, 18:11

Roughly 2,500 seals have been found dead on the Caspian Sea coast in the southern Russian province of Dagestan, officials said Sunday…

Devastating climate impacts await coastal Bangladesh

Dr Saleemul Huq : 8 DECEMBER 2022, THURSDAY, 5:46

The World Bank recently published a thorough analysis of various adverse impacts of human-induced climate change that will hit the coastal districts…

Australia argues against ‘endangered’ Barrier Reef status

oceantimes desk : 4 DECEMBER 2022, SUNDAY, 7:29

Australia’s environment minister said Tuesday her government will lobby against UNESCO adding the Great Barrier Reef to a list of endangered World Heritage sites…

Over 7.1m Bangladeshis displaced by climate change in 2022: WHO

UNB, Dhaka : 1 DECEMBER 2022, THURSDAY, 0:18

Over 7.1 million Bangladeshis were displaced by climate change in 2022, a number that could reach 13.3 million by 2050, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO)…

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