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Community-built ponds in Nepal’s Tarai-Madhesh are helping recharge local water supplies, support irrigation and reduce the impact of increasingly prolonged dry spells. Nathuni Mahato of...

Plain Prinia finds ways to survive as climate changes their habitats

Anchored to the river: Manta community confronts losses beyond cash

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Shyamnagar announces week-long climate action programmes in Satkhira

Barishal University launches microplastics lab to study coastal pollution

Sundarbans retreat brings colleagues together beyond the workplace

Rajshahi students imagine greener, safer and climate-resilient city

Seven planetary boundaries breached as pressures on Earth intensify

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Environment

Vanishing green: Chattogram bears 94% of Bangladesh’s tree-cover loss

Sustainability

Dumping station crisis in Bangladesh: work that brings to death

Lead

Forests on paper, gaps on ground, World Bank-financed $175m project in Bangladesh

Focus

Colonial scars still shape Bangladesh tea workers’ struggle for rights

Climate Finance

From pledges to progress: Bangladesh’s COP-31 climate strategy

Bangladeshi journalist Mosabber takes a deeper look at climate finance at NYU Stern

Bangladesh fisheries ministry, ICCCAD sign climate resilience MoU

Arctic climate crisis deepens as geopolitics strains science and communities

Sustainability

The enchanting call of Khoiyachora waterfall: Bangladesh’s majestic queen of cascades

Crack in embankment raises flooding fears for 13 villages in Khulna

Training workshop on agroecology and climate justice held in Manikganj

Ruvuma villages turn to community conservation as climate risks grow

Direct village funding in Ruvuma is placing conservation decisions...

Bangladesh civil groups launch campaign to expand renewable energy

Civil groups are urging a faster shift to...

Climate Change

Climate action, COP31 preparations take centre stage at UNGA81

Coastal women in Shyamnagar turn hardship into a force for resilience

Climate change increases dengue risk in Bangladesh’s Rajshahi city

Bangladesh’s young climate leaders turn local knowledge into action

Ten youth organisations are being backed to turn community...

Nepal seeks climate funds as scientists link floods to global warming

Nepal is seeking loss-and-damage funding after a climate-linked Himalayan...

Biodiversity

Ten lions found dead in Tanzania wildlife reserve suspected of poisoning

UN biodiversity chief urges financial realignment ahead of COP17

Bangladesh forest reserve faces open logging, locals allege threats

Kunming Dialogue calls for faster action to close biodiversity gap

Countries at the Kunming Dialogue are examining finance, technology,...

Bangladesh green coalition formed in Harirampur over toxic pesticides

A 15-member coalition committee has been formed in Harirampur...

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Amazon’s Hidden Data Centers in India and Beyond

The Lights Dim on Laos’ Brief Bitcoin Dream

A digital boom in a thirsty Indonesian city

Inside Malaysia’s Data Center Boom

Climate Justice

“Money is short, water is scarce, but the suffering is greater”

64 youth demands from Bangladesh districts spotlight climate justice push

Mongla protest urges halt to new fossil fuel projects and funding

Climate disasters disrupt education for 171m students worldwide in 2025

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Indian Pond Heron faces shrinking wetlands as climate pressures grow

Heat, rain shifts put green bee-eaters under growing climate strain

Air pollution emerges as growing public health threat in Bangladesh

Noise pollution emerges as growing urban health threat

Crime

Illegal lead factory shut down in Haluaghat, seven workers jailed

Vantara says lemurs were lawfully acquired amid Bangladesh theft case

Bangladesh’s Sundarbans reopen after three months amid bandit fears

Rajshahi groups seek action to halt illegal lead recycling in city

Wildlife

Sundarbans patrol team seizes six boats, fishing gear in raids

Endangered capped leaf monkey killed in Moulvibazar road crash

Bangladesh calls for stronger regional action against wildlife crime

Dhaka begins rabies vaccination and collaring drive for stray dogs

Dhaka’s animal welfare groups have launched a citywide effort...

10-foot python rescued in Koyra and released into Sundarbans

A python trapped in household garden fencing was safely...

Energy

COP31 Presidency launches 35-by-35 Pledge and Antalya AI Pledge in New York

Bangladesh starts 12.5mmcf gas supply from newly drilled Titas-28

Netherlands unveils fossil roadmap but leaves phase-out dates unclear

Cabinet approves duty-tax waiver for solar power equipment imports

The Bangladesh Cabinet also approves a proposal to amend...

Bangladesh boosts furnace oil use as gas shortages hit power output

Furnace oil demand is outpacing available September supplies as...

Environment

Kishoreganj villagers block highway over illegal lead factory site

Bangladesh minister urges integrated approach to One Health at FAO

Bangladesh panel urges halt to bank finance for illegal brick kilns

Four villages fear flooding as Kopotakkho river erodes embankment

Villagers have been reinforcing weakened sections with soil as...

Bangladesh top court keeps ban on Cox’s Bazar beach road construction

Environmental lawyers say authorities began work with land-use permission...

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ASEAN, Brazil discuss climate ties ahead of COP31 and CBD COP17 talks

Indian journalist Lahkar wins Denmark climate fellowship

Youth groups reflect on COP30 at Chattogram dialogue

Bangladesh urged to send top leaders to COP climate talks

Women are still underrepresented in climate talks at COP30

COP process falls short for vulnerable nations, talks go on

Migration

German MPs spotlight investment ties amid German development budget cuts

South Asians trafficked through fake jobs into cyber scam operations, UN warns

Climate migrants in Dhaka face a new cycle of vulnerability

LG names Shyamnagar’s Habibullah Al Mamun as Ambassador 2026

An initiative to improve livelihoods for disadvantaged coastal families...

Satkhira citizens seek protection for climate migrants in city slums

Civic groups say Satkhira’s urban poor face insecure housing,...

Thoughts

Air conditioning brings relief while raising serious climate risks

The Nepal flood, the responsibility of the developed world and the limits of climate finance

Could the Mecca Defence Pact reshape Bangladesh’s hydro diplomacy?

GMO seeds raise concerns over farmer dependence and food control

Pakistan’s GMO debate raises concerns over farmer dependence, indigenous...

COP31: Belém promised a just transition. Antalya must make it real

The global just transition debate will succeed or fail...

News Digest

Tarique Rahman set for packed five-day schedule at UNGA in New York

Climate change could reshape diets, health in Bangladesh, experts say

Let the Dunes Defend the Coast

Bangladesh urges joint action across sectors to protect biodiversity

Sylhet stakeholders were urged to integrate biodiversity protection into...

Bangladesh urged to align cooling policy with ozone protection goals

Speakers in Rajshahi called for integrated cooling policies linking...

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