After the government paid compensation to clear 673 structures from a rebuilt coastal embankment at Kuakata, encroachers are again cutting Forest Department plantings and putting up shops on the slope at night.
More than 200 people in Kuptala and Kholahati unions of Gaibandha Sadar re-excavated and cleared an old canal in Jhinia beel by voluntary labour after years of waterlogging ruined boro and aman harvests.
An ADB technical note on Heifer International's work finds that under 10 per cent of global climate finance reaches local level and only about 5 per cent of extension services effectively reach women; in Bangladesh 101 women-led cooperatives now link 133,034 smallholders to finance, insurance and ma
Nicole Parnell is comparing arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi under sheep-and-beef, sheep-only and ungrazed areas of Mount Grand Station in Central Otago to learn how grazing and invading exotic grasses change the below-ground networks that supply nutrients and water and stabilise soil.
The Bangladesh Wildlife Service Foundation has rescued a venomous monocled cobra from a home in staff quarters next to Kalighat post office in Sreemangal.
Fourteen monocled cobra eggs kept and tended at an animal shelter in Kalapara, Patuakhali, have hatched for the first time after 46 days of care.
For ten days in August, Charley, a Labrador trained by Working Dogs for Conservation, worked the VanValkenburg family's North Park ranch where the One Ear Pack has settled, tracked by phone so ranchers could target range riders and deterrents at the hot spots; Wild Ranch and the Rocky Mountain Wolf
ICAR director general M. L. Jat launched the direct transfers at Punjab Agricultural University for Grow Indigo's 'Aadi' programme, which verified direct-seeded rice, reduced tillage and residue management on enrolled fields in 2019–2022 under the Verra VM0042 methodology; the first issuance covers
The 4th Panel of the Federal Regional Court of the 3rd Region ruled unanimously that MAPA must formalise the prohibition on aerial application of imidacloprid, clothianidin and thiamethoxam across all crops, finding 'qualified administrative inertia' after Ibama's re-evaluations of 2021 and 2024; Ib
The Bangladesh Meteorological Department says a low may form over the north Andaman Sea by Saturday or Sunday and could deepen into a depression and then a cyclone; its likely track is toward Odisha, but rainfall over Bangladesh is expected to rise after 23 September.
At a Dhaka greening seminar, Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs Minister Saching Prue Jerry said tree planting only pays off with the right species, and that the hills could move beyond banana and papaya into cashew, coffee, spices, latkan and Black Bengal goats.
August 2026 tied July 2023 as the hottest month ever measured globally, with Utah, Colorado and New Mexico recording their hottest summers in 132 years; AccuWeather says a 'Super El Niño' is near-certain, peaking around December, favouring a wetter southern US and a drier northern Plains.
Seven men were detained with a dredger and a bulkhead while lifting sand illegally from the Tetulia river in Bhola's Borhanuddin upazila and fined Tk 1 lakh by a mobile court; the Coast Guard says such extraction is accelerating erosion and threatening riverside farmland and homesteads.
