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World Glacier Monitoring Service. The World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) was started in 1986, combining the two former services PSFG (Permanent Service on Fluctuations of Glaciers) and TTS/WGI (Temporal Technical Secretary/World Glacier Inventory). It is a service of the International Association of the Cryospheric Sciences of the ...
There are three World Heritage Sites in Bangladesh, and a further seven on the tentative list. [3] The first two sites listed were the Mosque City of Bagerhat and the Ruins of the Buddhist Vihara at Paharpur, in 1985. Both sites are cultural. The most recent site, the Sundarbans, was listed in 1997 and is a natural site.
The Glinka World Soil Prize is an annual prize awarded since 2016 to researchers for their direct contributions to the preservation of the environment, food security and poverty alleviation. The winner receives a USD 15000 check and a Glinka gold-plated medal. The prize is named in honour of the Russian soil scientist Konstantin Glinka (1867-1927).
Awards received by Professor Muhammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank : 1978 — President's Award, Bangladesh [1] 1984 — Ramon Magsaysay Award, Philippines [2] 1985 — Bangladesh Bank Award, Bangladesh [1] 1987 — Shwadhinota Dibosh Puroshkar ( Independence Day Award ), Bangladesh [1]
The Blue Planet Prize recognises outstanding efforts in scientific research or applications of science that contribute to solving global environmental problems. The prize was created by the Asahi Glass Foundation in 1992, the year of the Rio Earth Summit , and since then the foundation has awarded the prize to two winners every year. [1]
There remains a huge discrepancy in prize money between the men’s and women’s World Cup. The record prize money of $152m (£126m) announced by Fifa before the tournament remains some way short ...
Year Picture Name Country The reason for the award is 1913: Rabindranath Tagore (Khulna district, Bengal, now Bangladesh): British India: Won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his extremely sensitive, refined, and well-written line of poetry, through which he has been able to express his poetic thinking in his own English words, which has become a part of Western literature.
Atlanta remains under a state of emergency Monday as it battles disruptions to its water service that first began last week, leaving a swath of a major city under boil water advisories and ...