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The interim government had identified 4,911 mouzas in the Barind region as “water-stressed areas” and banned groundwater extraction for all purposes except drinking.
Bangladesh Ecological Damage From Modern Farming | Bangladesh Environmental Crisis: The Politics of Ecocide | The Daily Star
It is widely considered that modern environmentalism started in the 1960s, with the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring as a key marker, which highlighted the potential negative impacts of human activities on the natural environment
Decolonising Conservation: Towards a Postcolonial Conservation Regime – E-International Relations
19 million metric tons are harvested during the boro season, 14 million metric tons during amon (July to December) and 3 million metric tons during aush (April to July), according to Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics data for 2020-2021.
Climate change puts Bangladeshi farmers’ reliance on rice varieties to the test
known as BRRI-28 and BRRI-29, in a country that has more than 130 varieties available. Now, with growing pest attacks and a loss of crop vibrancy as a result of monoculture, yields from the two varieties have experienced a dramatic drop.
Climate change puts Bangladeshi farmers’ reliance on rice varieties to the test
Harvester machines do not function in water, and farmers are finding it difficult to secure labourers willing to work in watery fields. Labour has, moreover, become too costly—around Tk 2,000 to harvest paddy from one katha—leaving many farmers with virtually nothing.
Haor Farmers Crisis Bangladesh | Farmers of the haors are dying of despair | Boro Rice Crop Damage Haor Region | The daily star
And even though jalmahals (wetlands) are to be leased out to people and cooperatives actually dependent on fishing, in reality, local influentials with money and connections get those leases, and actual fishers just work as labourers, or the allotted wetland is sub-leased to other people, which is clearly prohibited in the Jalmahal Management Policy, 2009.
Time to end the leasing of wetlands? | The Business Standard
He told me that his grandfather, Fulchand, once caught large tolla and kuje air fish from Andhasura, Manki Bil and the Shib River. Now there is no water in the bil. There is no fish either. The wetlands are leased out to the rich. The poor cannot step into the water.
Bangladesh Ecological Damage From Modern Farming | Bangladesh Environmental Crisis: The Politics of Ecocide | The Daily Star
Dhepi, Kachudola, Nojang, Dudhkalam, Lalaguri, Kalaaguri, Shatiagur, Katishail, Dhali, Garia, Dungra, Chapal, Shani, Dumra, Kajalgaria, Indurshail, Boumail, Kaladema—these were the rice varieties once grown here.
Bangladesh Ecological Damage From Modern Farming | Bangladesh Environmental Crisis: The Politics of Ecocide | The Daily Star
Avatar is a celluloid indictment against the kind of environmental injustices that the Bandarban resort project exemplifies.
Your land is my land: Environmental injustice in Bandarban | The Daily Star
In his Facebook post of May 16, alluding to the recent deaths of protesting workers over the "environmentally destructive coal power plant", Chowdhury sarcastically stated that the local people "are being submerged by the tidal surge (of development)".
When the pen becomes a security threat | The Daily Star
There appears to be no semantic meaning they are contending with, and no understanding of content. But there is a matching of linguistic patterns of input and output that creates a very substantial and substantive body of new expression that is very much like what human thought directed to the same subjects would produce. And the ability of the models to do that is getting better all the time.
Idols of the Valley — The New Atlantis
Unscripted computing is an utterly revolutionary force. And it is ultimately made possible by a kind of linguistic breakthrough.
Idols of the Valley — The New Atlantis
has brilliantly argued, “By understanding natural language, these models have transformed from tools that require specialized expertise to collaborative partners that can work alongside anyone who can articulate ideas.”
Idols of the Valley — The New Atlantis
AI has essentially broken all language barriers — not only between human languages but, more importantly, between human language and computing language.
Idols of the Valley — The New Atlantis
the more it has seemed to me that at its deepest core what we now call AI is a linguistic breakthrough.
Idols of the Valley — The New Atlantis
That “profit” is the only idol he can see in an age that absolutely teems with golden calves is frankly staggering
Idols of the Valley — The New Atlantis
He might have grounded his warnings in the danger of idolatry, even if he couldn’t perfectly identify the character of the idol that so worries him.
Idols of the Valley — The New Atlantis
All three again raise the prospect of substituting AI for human judgment and action and leaving us human beings less capable of such judgment and action, and less desirous of it.
Idols of the Valley — The New Atlantis
With no further effort to describe what he means by the term,
Idols of the Valley — The New Atlantis
And then, in a passage well worth quoting at length,
Idols of the Valley — The New Atlantis
treat the AI revolution as an extension of long-running technological trends without distinguishing its particular character. It is our next step, to be sure, but it is more than merely one more step.
Idols of the Valley — The New Atlantis
And indeed, a fair portion of this document is directed broadly to digital technology and not specifically to AI. It offers warnings about data privacy, sexual exploitation online, the need for age limits on the use of devices and platforms, the dangerously concentrated power of tech companies, and other now-standard concerns.
Idols of the Valley — The New Atlantis
All of that is, of course, a persuasive and powerful Christian approach to the ethics of technology,
Idols of the Valley — The New Atlantis
the primary choice is not between a “yes” or “no” to technology, but rather between constructing Babel or rebuilding Jerusalem; between a power that claims to dominate the heavens and a people who work together in the presence of God to rebuild the walls of fraternal coexistence.
Idols of the Valley — The New Atlantis
And the Pope’s choices of the Tower of Babel in the book of Genesis and the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem in the book of Nehemiah as stark alternatives to contemplate have a lot to offer us.
Idols of the Valley — The New Atlantis
And I am about a generation younger than the Pope, which means I’m blessed and burdened with the maddening equanimity of middle age:
Idols of the Valley — The New Atlantis
AI is something altogether different from the Internet and social media. And it is even more powerfully shaped by intellectual categories forged in the second half of the twentieth century
Idols of the Valley — The New Atlantis
Leo XIV does not have that advantage. He is, like the rest of us, straining to grasp the contours of the still-emerging age of AI.
Idols of the Valley — The New Atlantis
Comparing AI to capitalism is no flight of hyperbole.
Idols of the Valley — The New Atlantis
. But it also reflects the difficulties posed by the sheer magnitude of the moment.
Idols of the Valley — The New Atlantis
of the nature of the human person, to a world coming to terms with artificial intelligence.
Idols of the Valley — The New Atlantis
in the face of the indignities of the industrial age.
Idols of the Valley — The New Atlantis
ince the beginning of his papacy a year ago, Pope Leo XIV has held out the promise of offering the world some much-needed wisdom on living well with technology.
Idols of the Valley — The New Atlantis
The default position tends to be one of ‘raising awareness’ or steering the visitor-consumer towards more environmentally ethical products and behaviours.
Museums and industry | Future Observatory
But in recent decades design museums – while arguably more critical and nuanced in their relationship to the public than they were then – are less proactive, let’s say, in driving industrial innovation.
Museums and industry | Future Observatory
‘What role can museums play in supporting not just industrial strategy but the fundamental economic and social shifts required by the green transition?’
Museums and industry | Future Observatory
বন বিভাগের তথ্য অনুযায়ী, ২০১৬ থেকে ২০২৫ সাল পর্যন্ত নেত্রকোনা, শেরপুর, ময়মনসিংহ ও জামালপুরে ৩২টি হাতি হত্যাকাণ্ডের শিকার হয়েছে। এসব ঘটনায় সাধারণ ডায়েরি হয়েছে মাত্র সাতটি। থানায় মামলা হয়েছে একটি।
হাতি মারতে গারো পাহাড়ের পাদদেশে এক কিলোমিটারের বৈদ্যুতিক ফাঁদ
While DepEd requires climate change to be taught in an “integrated and multidisciplinary” approach, students and teachers interviewed by Philstar.com say that there is little opportunity for science and social science teachers to collaborate on teaching climate change.
Climate change is a societal issue. Why is teaching it limited to memorizing science? | Philstar.com
During this limited time, the topic of the factors that cause climate change are lumped together with the topic of the global climate phenomenon.
Climate change is a societal issue. Why is teaching it limited to memorizing science? | Philstar.com
In addition, the rights of domestic workers, agricultural workers and seafarers have been legally recognized by bringing them under specific sections of the labor law.
Bangladesh Labor (Amendment) Bill, 2026 Passed in Parliament - Business in Bangladesh
In their earliest formulations, she defined narcissism as ‘loving oneself and loving in the other, the love he has for you’.
Simone de Beauvoir’s authentic love is a project of equals | Aeon Essays
In The Second Sex (1949), Beauvoir argued that culture led men and women to have asymmetrical expectations, with the result that ‘love’ frequently felt like a battlefield of conflicting desires or a graveyard for their disappointments.
Simone de Beauvoir’s authentic love is a project of equals | Aeon Essays
Hannah Arendt also defines loneliness as a feeling that results when one’s human dignity or unconditional worth as a person fails to be recognised and affirmed, a feeling that results when this, one of the ‘basic requirements of the human condition’, fails to be met.
How is it possible to be loved and yet to feel deeply lonely? | Aeon Essays
‘pain of social disconnection
How is it possible to be loved and yet to feel deeply lonely? | Aeon Essays
teenage girls into informal work as domestic workers in cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, and Bengaluru. However, this is addressed piecemeal under India’s existing policies on labour, migration, and climate change.
Climate-Induced Internal Migration for Domestic Work in India: Gendered Pathways, Regional Dynamics, and Policy Responses – SPRF
Ana graduated with a double first class degree from Oxford University and has a joint master’s degree from the London School of Economics and Sciences Po Paris. She speaks German, Spanish and Portuguese.
Ana Lankes | The Orwell Foundation
The most dominant barriers were discrimination and rejection related to stigma, as almost all participants mentioned these barriers. Stigmatizing attitudes and the discriminatory act of the community people and healthcare providers critically affected their treatment adherence.
Exploring the barriers to the antiretroviral therapy adherence among people living with HIV in Bangladesh: A qualitative approach - PMC
, only 22% of the identified PLHIV continue treatment. Therefore, this study aims to explore the barriers that obstruct the Bangladeshi PLHIV to ensure ART adherence.
Exploring the barriers to the antiretroviral therapy adherence among people living with HIV in Bangladesh: A qualitative approach - PMC
The OKUP longitudinal research has proven that where the income and employment opportunities have almost dried up in the communities due to climate-induced disasters, and where most of the households have already fallen into debt traps, many people search for livelihoods outside their villages either in a new district, a city or a town, while many of them go overseas to find employment to survive.
We need to talk about climate migration – Ovibashi Karmi Unnayan Program
The answer to my writer’s block was in front of me all along: all I needed to do was to talk to other people.
How to survive the information crisis: ‘We once talked about fake news – now reality itself feels fake’ | Media | The Guardian