HealthUniversity of Chicago researchers project 66,800 extra heat deaths in Nigeria, Sudan, Niger and Chad, where poverty and scarce electricity leave people unable to cool down.
CropsWeather service and SADC outlooks favour below-normal rain and above-normal temperatures from October, but past El Nino years show strength alone does not decide the season.
EnvironmentWith Category 3 Hurricane Polo threatening landfall, power went out in parts of Mexico's Baja California peninsula and sea water broke through sand barriers at the fishing port of Puerto San Carlos.
EnvironmentYoung environmental activist Ratul Munshi, who grew up in Madhupur, Tangail, says he has planted about 25,000 trees; after a 400 km tree march and planting palms and rare boilam trees, he now campaigns to protect the sal forest.
AgribusinessA third of England's moorland, more than 260,000 ha, has no agri-environment agreement; campaigners blame stocking rules, excluded common land and a clashing deadline.
EnvironmentAt the launch of a plan to install 100,000 weather stations in Africa, speakers said growers need clear spray-or-not advice and local trial results, not more raw data, as El Nino narrows their options.
BangladeshBangladesh's first agro-ecological zone stretches across Panchagarh, Thakurgaon and north-western Dinajpur on land laid down by an ancient Tista river fan. Its light, acidic soils set the rules for farming, and researchers say satellite data and machine learning will help farmers only when they are checked in real fields.
A jetty and two boats costing about Tk 35 lakh are ready on the 32-acre south lake of the National Zoo in Mirpur, but noisy engines have kept the rides from starting, and a zoologist says the plan will drive away migratory birds.
EnvironmentCouncil staff now recommend trucking Cromwell's stored sludge to Winton landfill after doubts the Lauder farm site could take it all; Federated Farmers says the porous, dry site is unsuitable.
EnvironmentA deep depression over the north Andaman Sea has prompted local cautionary signal 3 at Chattogram and Cox's Bazar ports, and fishing boats have been told to stay out of the deep sea.
Within the Sundarbans' 10-kilometre ecologically critical area, 21 resorts and cottages have gone up in seven or eight years and 10 more are being built; none has Department of Environment clearance or district registration.
EnvironmentThe mouth of the Atrakhali, a branch of the Someshwari in Netrokona, was sealed by a road for sand trucks, leaving the river a sandbank, riverside fields without irrigation and native fish gone.
A photo story from Dimer Char, a quiet stretch of beach and mangrove where the Sundarbans meets the Bay of Bengal.
