'Mercury Bomb': A gift from climate change
What effects will the mercury bomb have on humans?
1w ago
124 years on, gender gap in Nobel Prize still persists
Clearly, the choice of who gets the Nobel Prize is heavily biased towards males.
1m ago
Is there a force called gravity?
Thanks to Einstein, we live in a universe of curved spaces and altered time.
3m ago
Are we coasting on the 'highway to climate hell'?
Earth could become an “uninhabitable hell” similar to Venus in just a few centuries, or even sooner.
4m ago
What will happen when the 'Doomsday Glacier' disintegrates?
As climate change drives global temperatures ever higher, glaciers and ice sheets will inevitably melt.
5m ago
Solar storm and aurora: A dazzling display of colourful lights
What causes an aurora? The root cause of an aurora is a solar storm, a dramatic blast of electromagnetic radiation from the Sun.
6m ago
Why is Bangladesh in the grip of a sizzling heatwave?
We should prepare ourselves for future heatwaves and help the most vulnerable people enduring the ongoing blistering heat.
7m ago
As I watched the tiny Moon devour the blazing Sun
This cosmic event delivered on the hype leading up to it with clockwork precision.
7m ago
July 2, 2020
Fear of the unknown: Stories of Covid-19 in Bangladesh
A patient on ventilatory support was removed from the ICU of a private hospital in Dhaka when it was found that he was Covid-19 positive.
June 11, 2020
Agriculture and livestock: Are they victims or perpetrators of climate change?
Though much of the world is focused on transitioning away from fossil fuels as a way to fight climate change, there are other often overlooked contributors to the conundrum resulting from climate change.
May 19, 2020
Building a sustainable society in the age of climate change
In an opinion piece published in this newspaper on April 22, 2020, I discussed the future of our planet within the context of frontier ethics.
April 22, 2020
Our frontier mentality and the future of Earth
No one witnessed the birth of Earth. The Earth does not have a birth certificate to authenticate its age.
April 6, 2020
Changing teaching modality during the Covid-19 pandemic
In a book on influenza published last year, Robert G. Webster, a virologist at Otago University in New Zealand, had a terrifyingly prescient chapter about pandemics.
March 23, 2020
Why should you care about the air you breathe?
If you live in Dhaka, a city that is perennially drowned in a sea of polluted air, you may think that a scarlet sunrise or sunset blazing across the horizon is a sight to behold.
February 12, 2020
Abnormals of the past are normals in the age of climate change
For millions of years, we have remained in equilibrium with our environment. In fact, a defining characteristic of the last 11,500 years, a period in Earth’s history called the Holocene Epoch, has been global climate stability, with average surface temperature fluctuating plus or minus one degree Celsius.
December 18, 2019
An Ignoble Nobel Laureate
After his death in 1896, the will of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite, established the Nobel Prize in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature and Peace.
December 3, 2019
Doomsday Clock: It is now two minutes to midnight
The Doomsday Clock was created in 1947 by the Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago. Original members of the Board were a group of scientists who worked under the auspices of the Manhattan Project, the secret scheme responsible for developing the first nuclear weapons.
November 6, 2019
Blue energy: Can it power a sustainable future?
Ever since global warming became a hot button issue, our leaders have told us umpteen times that “climate change is the greatest environmental threat and the biggest challenge humanity has ever faced.” Yet, they are not “bold enough to do enough” to pull us out of the climate change conundrum soon enough.
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