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

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Satellite data show Chattogram lost about 260,000 hectares of tree cover from 2001 to 2025 as farming, infrastructure, industry and urban expansion reshaped Bangladesh's...

Indian Pond Heron faces shrinking wetlands as climate pressures grow

Devighat flood leaves Nepal residents rebuilding their lives from zero

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Bangladesh forms national climate finance committee led by PM Tarique Rahman

High Court halts road construction in Cox’s Bazar beach area for 8 weeks

Pacific leaders press fossil fuel phaseout as overshoot warning grows

UN warns Himalayan glacier floods could displace millions in future

Devastating Bhote Koshi–Trishuli flood leaves trail of death and destruction across Nepal

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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

Energy

Electricity for Bangladesh, pollution fears for riverside Taltali

Climate Finance

Nepal seeks emergency Loss and Damage Fund aid after Bhotekoshi flood

Nepal floods: LDC group urges global support, climate finance for vulnerable nations

Billions pledged, drought pact fails again as UN land talks expose $278bn funding gap

Bhotekoshi 2026: Green Climate Fund failed Nepal’s communities when urgent action was needed

Sustainability

HSBC to give Tk 100m for flood rehabilitation in Chattogram

Prime Bank, BAU partner on climate-resilient farming in haor areas

Climate fight needs new knowledge, not old tools, GND forum hears

Bangladesh faces growing CBAM risk as EU eyes wider textile rules

Bangladesh’s current CBAM exposure is limited, but potential EU...

Bangladesh among world’s most climate-vulnerable, minister warns

Bangladesh is expanding its climate response through adaptation planning,...

Climate Change

Mymensingh MP’s wife gets NOC for solar plant on farmland 27 days after agriculture dept objects

Nepal flood exposes a capital gap in the LDC graduation framework

Germany reports record 15,800 heat-related deaths after heatwaves

Climate migrants comprise 30-40% of Chattogram slum population: study

A survey of 540 displaced residents shows how erosion,...

Nepal calls for global climate action after deadly Himalayan floods

Nepal is urging stronger climate adaptation, Himalayan research and...

Biodiversity

Biodiversity key to indigenous rights, Bangladesh representative says

Rajshahi groups seek action to halt illegal lead recycling in city

Rajshahi launches programme to plant 1,000 palm tree saplings

Farmer-led banana exchanges enrich Barind agrobiodiversity, study says

The BARCIK field findings highlight how village learning centres...

As canals choke, fish, jobs and songs fade from Bangladesh wetland

Blocked links to the Padma are shrinking catches and...

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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

Youth-led AGUN alliance launched to defend rights and nature in Bangladesh

Friendship founder Runa Khan wins 2026 Ramon Magsaysay Award

Experts urge national heat action plan amid rising heat risk

Climate champion abroad, environmental challenges at home: Bangladesh near bottom of global index

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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

Climate change puts Common Moorhen’s wetland life under pressure

Crime

Bangladesh’s Sundarbans reopen after three months amid bandit fears

DoE demolish illegal lead smelting plant in Dhaka

44 held in 80 days as work-starved fishers defy Sundarbans ban again

Woman detained with 24 Bengal monitor lizards in Khagrachhari town

Wildlife

10-foot python rescued in Koyra and released into Sundarbans

Giant anteaters shift activity to cooler hours as climate warms

Military vets called in as Sri Lanka wildlife veterinarians protest

Bird nests fall as trees cut in Bangladesh, killing chicks and eggs

Long known as a bird colony, Ramnagar’s nesting trees...

After more than a century, wild onager foal born in Saudi reserve

Saudi Arabia’s Prince Mohammed bin Salman Royal Reserve is...

Energy

Uganda police arrest youth activists in protest against oil reliance

Bangladesh considers Tk10bn shift to solar power amid energy crisis

Solar streetlights go dark in Bangladesh town after nearly five years

Germany-backed agrivoltaics pilot opens in Chuadanga

The pilot will test how solar irrigation, farming and...

Gas shortage shuts Mymensingh power plant for 26 days, fuels outages

Years of declining gas supplies have reduced output at...

Environment

Bangladesh recovers 2,300 acres of forest in five months: minister

India says Ganga treaty issues to be discussed through bilateral JRC

Women shoulder family burden as Sundarbans bans leave men jobless

Forest and agriculture enterprises set to drive Nepal’s green economy

A Kathmandu pitching event brought entrepreneurs, investors and development...

Avalanche in Langtang Himal caused massive Bhotekoshi flood, officials say

Satellite evidence points to a high-altitude snow and rock...

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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

Climate migrants in Dhaka face a new cycle of vulnerability

Bangladesh builds climate alliances on COP17 sidelines

LG names Shyamnagar’s Habibullah Al Mamun as Ambassador 2026

Bangladesh launches national plan to promote safe, orderly migration

The EU-backed initiative will strengthen Bangladesh’s migration governance through...

Khulna city unveils strategy to manage climate-induced displacement

Prepared by KUET’s IDM and Caritas Bangladesh, the strategy...

Thoughts

The hidden face of climate disasters

Organic Fertilizer Offers a Sustainable Alternative to Chemical Fertilizers

The slow violence of salinity on coastal women

Prospects and challenges of Carbon trading for small landholders in South Asia

Small farmers could benefit from carbon markets, but South...

We are already paying the hidden costs of fossil-fuel dependence

Bangladesh’s reliance on imported fossil fuels exposes households, students...

News Digest

India rejects Hague ruling to restore Indus water pact with Pakistan

Bangladesh civil society urges roadmap to protect rights from climate

Dhaka’s e-rickshaw transition puts workers and residents at odds now

Study finds climate change exposes 22m Bangladeshi children to heat

From street flower sellers to factory workers, children in...

German initiative trains 77 Bangladesh professionals in solar and wind

The programme highlights growing efforts to build renewable energy...

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