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EnvironmentAt the Syed Humayun Kabir Memorial Research Symposium, the water and climate specialist cited weak coordination between ministries, little help from the agriculture and health ministries, and donor-funded documents that 'gather dust on the shelf'.
LivestockUSDA has ordered the dairy checkoff to stop funding environmental, social and governance initiatives and told the Agricultural Marketing Service to apply the same rule to every other commodity checkoff.
EnvironmentThe Met Office's extended five-day outlook sees a low forming over the north Andaman Sea by 19 September, gusty showers across all divisions and moderately heavy to heavy rain in places.
AgribusinessA seal leak in the RC pump and low gas pressure mean no production before Saturday; the 1,100-tonne-a-day factory made only 65,000 tonnes of urea in all of 2025-26.
EnvironmentA mobile court demolished the two-storey site office of 'Dhaka Western Valley', which was filling land marked as farmland and water body in the detailed area plan without approval; billboards of two neighbouring projects were also removed.
OrganicCambridge, Massachusetts-based Robigo Bio has closed a Series A round led by Leaps by Bayer to bring engineered microbial seed treatments for soybean Sudden Death Syndrome and fusarium wilt to market in 2028 and 2029.
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FisheriesCatching and selling the species is banned under the Wildlife (Conservation and Security) Act 2012, yet the fish was auctioned for about Tk 90,000 and cut up at Chairman Ghat; the district fisheries officer says the fisheries law itself does not bar it.
EnvironmentSix primary and six secondary sewage entry points have been identified at Gulshan Lake; the fleet of mechanical boats clearing floating waste is to rise from two to ten, with building-level treatment plants and a crackdown on illegal connections.
AgribusinessA report marking ten years of the Initiative for the Adaptation of African Agriculture puts the continent's climate adaptation bill at $566 billion and sets out a roadmap to 2036 that relies on existing institutions rather than a new fund.
EnvironmentCounties in the northern Midwest and Northeast raised their share of tile-drained cropland by 8 percentage points or more between 2012 and 2022, USDA economists report.
EnvironmentFirefly larvae spend one to several years in soil and leaf litter; pesticides kill the snails and worms they eat, cleared scrub removes their shelter, and street lights drown out the flashes they use to find a mate.
EnvironmentPrime Minister Tarique Rahman has directed coordinated action to stop sewage entering the Gulshan, Banani, Baridhara, Niketan and Dhanmondi lakes, install sewage treatment plants and raise the number of mechanical boats clearing floating waste from two to ten.
