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Pakistan Floods Last Summer Could Have Been Predicted

By Guest PostFebruary 5, 2011Environment, Scienceanna ghelli, Bangladesh, computer models, disaster, downpours, environmental prediction, european weather forecasting center, flood forecasting technique, floods, hydrological model, meteorological agency, monitoring, monsoonal deluges, Pakistan, peter Webster, rainfall, terrain

WASHINGTON — Five days before intense monsoonal deluges unleashed vast floods across Pakistan last July, computer models at a European weather-forecasting center were giving clear indications that the downpours were imminent. Now, a new scientific study that retrospectively examines the raw data from these computer models, has confirmed that, if the information had been processed, forecasters could have predicted extremely accurate rainfall totals 8-10 days beforehand.

The study also finds that the floods themselves could have been predicted if this data, which originated from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF), had been processed and fed into a hydrological model, which takes terrain into account. (more…)

Russian Nuclear Industry to Conquer Country of Pyramids

By PravdaDecember 22, 2010Politics, Science, Technologyalexandria, Bangladesh, bushehr npp, egypt, electricity, gigacalories, gw, haripur, hydropower, India, kudankulam, nuclear power plant, power plant, rachid mohamed rachid, rivers, rosatom, russia, Technology, thermal power, Venezuela, viktor khristenko, vladimir putin, West Bengal

Russia is ready to build a nuclear power plant in Egypt at its own expense, to manage the plant, and even find markets for the electricity. Early next year Egypt is expected to announce a tender for the construction of nuclear power plant with the capacity of 1 GW 150 km from Alexandria. Russia’s Rosatom will participate in the tender.

A meeting of Russian-Egyptian intergovernmental commission on trade, economic and scientific-technical cooperation was held on Monday. From the Russian side it was chaired by the Minister of Industry and Trade Viktor Khristenko. (more…)

The Looming World Food Catastrophe

By PravdaAugust 10, 20104 commentsEconomyafrican products, Bangladesh, domestic food prices, Economy, Europe, globalization, imperialism, price of fertilizers, timothy bancroft-hinchey, wb department of agriculture, wheat prices, world bank, world food crisis

For several years, the World Bank has been announcing its plans to find solutions to solve the world food crisis, whereby vast swathes of the world’s population find it increasingly difficult to put food on the family table, while the banks bail each other out and fat cat bankers get fatter. The morality of the issue is staggeringly incomprehensible.

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Building Bridges for Women

By PravdaAugust 6, 2010Culture, Politicsanne-marie goetz, Bangladesh, darfur, governance, India, juba, make women count for peace, pravda, security council resolution 1325, timothy bancroft-hinchey, uganda, unifem, violence against women

Exclusive Interview between PRAVDA.Ru* and UNIFEM Chief of Governance for Peace and Security Ms. Anne-Marie Goetz, who states that the way we think about gender and war has changed in the last decade, although a lot more needs to be done. What is the situation regarding women’s rights in conflict zones, what can Governments do, and fundamentally, what can you do?

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‘Sea Levels Rising in Parts of Indian Ocean’

By Guest PostJuly 15, 20102 commentsEnvironmentafrica, Antarctica, arabian sea, atmospheric, balaji rajagopalan, Bangladesh, bay of bengal, global climate, greenhouse gases, India, indian ocean, indo-pacific, Java, mascarenhas archipelago, naval research laboratory in Mississippi, ncar, sea levels, seychelles Islands, sri lanka, sumatra, Tanzania, university of colorado at boulder, weiqing han, Zanzibar

*Greenhouse gases are playing a role in changes, say scientists*

Newly detected rising sea levels in parts of the Indian Ocean, including the coastlines of the Bay of Bengal, the Arabian Sea, Sri Lanka, Sumatra and Java, appear to be at least partly a result of human-induced increases of atmospheric greenhouse gases, says a study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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Plant’s role in global warming

By Guest PostApril 30, 2010Environment, Scienceandy mcleod, atmosphere, Bangladesh, campus, carbon dioxide, earth, forestry and agriculture, global warming, methane, moulana bhashani science and technology university, ozone, percent of earth’s emission, plants, santosh, school of geosciences, tangail, university of edinburgh

Plants remain an effective way of tackling global warming despite emitting small amounts of an important greenhouse gas, a study has shown.

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Save the Irrawaddy dolphins

By ShamsApril 12, 20092 commentsEnvironment, ScienceBangladesh, Ganges River, India, Irrawaddy dolphins, Royal Bengal Tigers, Sunderbans mangrove forest, Wildlife Conservation Society

A study conducted by the Wildlife Conservative Society (WCS) found large numbers of Irrawaddy dolphins in the freshwater region of Sunderbans Mangrove forest in Bangladesh. The study approximates the number to about 6000.

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Arsenic, Vitamin A, and blood cancer

By ShamsFebruary 21, 2009Health, Sciencearsenic, arsenicosis, Bangladesh, BGS, blood cancer, British Geological Survey, brown algae, Hijiki, India, leukaemia, Oregon Department of Human Services, point source maps, sea food, secondary cancers, vitamin A, West Bengal, WHO, World Health Organisation

Arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh and West Bengal (India) drinking water is a well-known issue in the last many years. Arsenic is a poisonous metalloid that naturally occurs in soils, and is soluble in water.

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