Topic: Bangladesh
Greenpeace's famous protest ship, the Rainbow Warrior II, arrived in Bangladesh on Monday, ready to be turned into a floating hospital.Bangladeshi charity Friendship, which was given the ship by the environmental campaign group this month, said it will take six months to ...
When Fox introduced her own colored cotton to the world in 1989, though, she had done something no one had thought possible: The only cotton that was commercially viable was white cotton, which had been bred and refined to have long, strong ...
Sitesh Ranjan Deb says his transformation from hunter to conservationist was triggered 20 years ago when he was attacked by a Himalayan black bear while out stalking deer.Sitesh, from northeastern Bangladesh, stumbled on the sleeping beast. It lashed out, severely damaging his ...
Bangladesh's high court has banned the lease of coastal land to ship-breaking yards, a lawyer said Friday, in a ruling welcomed by environmentalists who say the industry destroys fragile eco-systems.About a third of the world's condemned ships are dismantled at about 100 ...
Up to 77 million Bangladeshis have been exposed to toxic levels of arsenic from contaminated drinking water, and even low-level exposure to the poison is not risk-free, The Lancet medical journal reported.Over the past decade, more than 20 percent of deaths recorded ...
Western consumers who shun environmentally unfriendly plastic bags are helping to revive the traditional jute industry in Bangladesh.Jute, a vegetable fibre that is spun into coarse threads, was once known as the "golden fibre" of the British Empire when the Indian sub-continent ...
While flipping through a copy of the New Yorker magazine earlier today, I came across an article written by Burkhard Bilger titled "Hearth Surgery" which took a look at the efforts of a group of scientists and engineers to create an inexpensive ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Man-made ponds and rice fields irrigated using groundwater may be responsible for arsenic contamination of groundwater in Bangladesh, a study has found.Arsenic is a naturally occurring chemical poisonous to humans and is known to cause skin lesions and ...
DHAKA (Reuters) - It was once the lifeline of the Bangladeshi capital.But the once mighty Buriganga river, which flows by Dhaka, is now one of the most polluted rivers in Bangladesh because of rampant dumping of industrial and human waste. Even rowing ...
Old soldiers may "just fade away," as General Douglas MacArthur so famously declared in his farewell speech to Congress, but old ships don't retire quite so easily. When ships reach the end of their useful life, all too often they are run ...
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Bangladesh Boat Capsizes
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Bangladesh Factory Fire
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Bangladesh Garment Protest
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George Harrison - Bangladesh
George Harrison performing "Bangladesh" during the concert for Bangladesh at ...2007-02-16 -
Discover Bangladesh Part 1
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Beautiful Bangladesh Exclusive New 10 Minute ...
Beautiful Bangladesh, Admission Going On..2011-07-20
