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Khulna launches a drive to plant 25,000 trees across the city
A joint afforestation programme of Khulna City Corporation and bKash opened at the city's Solar Park and Linear Park, with 25,000 trees to be planted in phases.
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Water minister calls for joint effort to save rivers as five win Mark Angelo award
At a World Rivers Day event at Pani Bhaban, water resources minister Shahiduddin Chowdhury Anee said government, public, researchers and environmentalists must work together; five were honoured for protecting rivers.
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Rangpur campaigners call for every transboundary river to be listed and recognised
At a World Rivers Day discussion and human chain at Begum Rokeya University, teachers, students and river activists demanded that all of Bangladesh's transboundary rivers be identified and recognised.
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Barishal rivers that once carried launches are turning into dead canals
Silt shoals, encroachment, pollution, bridges and a lack of river management are turning Barishal rivers such as the Khoyrabad, Lata, Kocha, Srimanta and Palordi into dead canals; the BWDB says it knows of no government plan to restore them for now.
EnvironmentUttar Pradesh rain 775% above normal: floods kill 56 people and 107 animals
Heavy rain on 25 and 26 September flooded parts of Uttar Pradesh, killing 56 people, damaging 1,021 houses and cropland, and killing 107 livestock by the government's count.
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Plan to revive Dhaka's five rivers and 55 canals with tree planting and walkways
State Minister Mir Shahe Alam says work is under way to clean Dhaka's five surrounding rivers and 55 canals of the two city corporations, restore flow, protect banks and plant trees, with sewage treatment plants planned.
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Polluted, encroached rivers raise health risks as heavy metals turn up in fish
Factory waste, vessel oil and encroachment are wrecking Bangladesh's rivers; a study found heavy metals above WHO limits in Meghna fish, and families hit by erosion report more depression.
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Lesser noddy on Sonadia's chars: a rare vagrant new to Bangladesh's bird list
The lesser noddy, an Indian Ocean seabird, was first recorded in Bangladesh at Sonadia, Cox's Bazar, in 2024; bird expert A N M Aminur Rahman photographed three near fishers on Belekerdia char.
BangladeshBangladesh's 30 Agro-Ecological Zones Explained: Soil, Water and Farming
Bangladesh is small, but its soil, water and weather change sharply from place to place. BARC divides the country into 30 agro-ecological zones. Here is what each zone is like, and how village data, satellite images and machine learning can give farmers sharper advice.
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An 18-foot road through Moheshkhali's reserved forest will serve encroachers
In Shaplapur, Moheshkhali, a dirt track through 18,286 acres of reserved forest is being turned into a 4.5 km road by LGED; the Forest Department and environmentalists say it will endanger wildlife and spur encroachment.
EnvironmentGamebird management a lifeline for farmland wildlife, GWCT report argues
A Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust report drawing on 25 years of research says the hedgerows, woodland, game crops and winter feed kept for released pheasants and partridges also feed and shelter other farmland species.
EnvironmentNFU Cymru presses Welsh government for SFS changes before next application window
With almost as many Welsh farmers staying in the old Basic Payment Scheme as joining the new Sustainable Farming Scheme, NFU Cymru president Abi Reader says habitat, hedge and tree rules must change for 2027.
LivestockBangladesh milk's carbon footprint 27% lower than estimated, study finds
A study by researchers at the University of Connecticut and Bangladesh Agricultural University, based on five years of data from the BAU dairy farm, finds the real carbon footprint of milk on Bangladeshi farms is 27 percent lower than earlier estimates.