Environment
How Healthy Is It to Keep Plants Indoors?
A small potted plant is very different from a forest or park, but research suggests it can play a similar role for our health.
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Indian Family Builds House Around 150-Year-Old Tree Instead of Cutting It
Rather than fell a 150-year-old peepal tree, the Kesharwani family in Madhya Pradesh built their new house around it.
Vegetables
Climate Change: How Sylhet's Women Are Fighting Back with Vegetable Gardens
Home vegetable gardens may become a weapon against climate change, as people in Sylhet found when early rains destroyed their paddy.
Environment
Snakebird Numbers Have Fallen Fast Over the Past 30 Years
The oriental darter, once common across Bangladesh, has declined rapidly over three decades and is now endangered in the country.
Environment
Migratory Birds Being Hunted in Satkhira
Poachers are trapping and shooting migratory birds in wetlands across Satkhira in defiance of a government ban.
Environment
Migratory Birds Enchant Visitors at Jahangirnagar University
Flocks of migratory birds have again settled on the lakes of Jahangirnagar University, drawing visitors from Dhaka and elsewhere.
Crops
Rajshahi's Openbill Colony to Get a Permanent Home
The government plans to acquire land around a mango orchard in Rajshahi's Bagha upazila to give a nesting colony of Asian openbills a permanent home.
Environment
Farm Department Pushes Crop Insurance to Shield Farmers from Nature's Blows
After repeated weather losses in eight months, the agriculture department is urging farmers in the district to insure their crops.
Environment
Call to Make the Bird Village a Tourist Area
Villagers and bird lovers want Alidewna, a village alive with thousands of birds, declared a sanctuary and a tourist spot.
Environment
Crowds Flock to Railway Station to See Sparrows
Sparrows roosting in the trees of Dinajpur railway station draw crowds every afternoon, and station workers keep them safe.
Fruits
Baya Weaver Nests on the Verge of Disappearing
The baya weaver and its intricate nest are fast disappearing from Meherpur as the palm trees it nests in are lost.
Environment
Exhibition to Show 40 Species of Hill Birds in Photographs
Two young photographers will show pictures of about 40 bird species from Khagrachhari and Rangamati at the district's first exhibition on saving hill birds.
Environment
6,000 Birds Die in One Night
Two days of storms and hail killed about 6,000 native and migratory birds at the Arunima Eco Park in Narail, most of them on Tuesday night.