In 2005, Hurricane Katrina laid waste to parts of the US Gulf Coast. Last year, the Arabian Peninsula was hit by a super-cyclone, Gonu. Now, an unusual early-season storm, Nargis, has slammed into Myanmar, brutally changing gear from a Category One to a Category Four cyclone just before it made landfall.
Are these events — massively [...]
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Abdul Majid has been forced to move 22 times in as many years, a victim of the annual floods that ravage Bangladesh.
There are millions like Majid, 65, in Bangladesh and in the future there could be many millions more if scientists’ predictions of rising seas and more intense droughts and storms come true.
“Bangladesh is already [...]
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Climate change will increase the risk of people losing their sight through cataracts because of higher levels of ultraviolet rays, an expert said Monday.”The three main risk factors that lead to cataract blindness are age, smoking and UV exposure, in that order,” said Andreas Mueller of the Fred Hollows Foundation.
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The Pakistan Army field hospital which was set up at Bhandaria, Barisal and Bangladesh for relief operations after cyclone “Sidr” worked day and night to mitigate the sufferings of flood-affected people, earning goodwill for the country. A Pakistan Air Force C-130 aircraft carrying the field hospital, doctors, paramedics and life-saving drugs was the first to [...]
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Cox’s Bazar beach and Sundarbans Forest have created excellence at the very beginning of selecting New 7 Wonders of Nature. Cox’s Bazar beach, largest sea beach of the world, has taken the first position among the primary nominated 158 natural places of the world.
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Almost 200 countries agreed in Bali to launch negotiations towards an agreement in 2009 to address climate change on the basis of a watered-down declaration. But they failed to translate the findings or recommendations of the scientific community into a corresponding global political response.
The decision - coming about 16 hours after the deadline had expired [...]
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Bali, Indonesia: Years of tense climate-change talks ended last night with victory for the
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Many people lost their Houses by devastating cyclone sidr. Now they are staying beside high roads. These temporary houses are made up with coconut leaves, old clothes and
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From Potuakhali: Villagers call him “miracle boy”. His name is Obaidul (7). His job was to cut fish and make packets with his mother. During the time of “Cyclone Sidr” hited in Bangladesh he was in an island named Kolagacia (situated in southern Bangladesh). The tidal waves of cyclone drifted him about 20 kilometers. His [...]
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Every day lot of foreign journalists, NGO, Donor representing are visiting cyclone
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