EnvironmentAs the July 2026 floodwater began to recede in Bandarban municipality, mud and rotting waste left in roads, drains and homes caused a severe stench and raised fears of waterborne disease.
As flooding from Typhoon Maysak swamped Hengzhou in China's Guangxi province, hundreds of snakes swam into homes and residents scrambled to catch them, while zoo animals escaped and more than 16,000 pigs were swept away.
A cobra and a rat snake rescued from a house in Chunarughat were released into Satchari National Park in Habiganj on 13 July.
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman urged people to look after newly planted saplings every day, as they would a newborn child, and said widespread tree planting was essential to cope with climate change.
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman launched a tree-planting programme in Gournadi, Barishal, by planting neem and hog plum saplings on the bank of a newly excavated canal.
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has left for his first visit to Barishal, where tree-planting programmes top his schedule.
With heavy to very heavy rain forecast across most of Bangladesh, the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute has issued advice for Aman seedbeds and transplanting.
A python kept trapped in a net for three days by a young man hoping to sell it has been rescued in Boalkhali upazila of Chattogram.
Sharmin Akter, a former Rajshahi University student, earns about Tk 12 lakh a year from saplings and pots grown in her rooftop garden and won first place for rooftop gardens in the 2025 national tree-planting awards.
Snakebites have injured 75 people in flood-hit areas of Chattogram, while another 20 to 25 have fallen ill with diarrhoea and other waterborne diseases.
Floodwater is slowly receding in Bandarban, but thousands of families remain marooned and farmers, roads and bridges have suffered heavy losses.
EnvironmentAs rain eased on 11 July 2026, the Raikhyong river in Rangamati's Bilaichhari began to fall and water drained from Baghaichhari, though 1,445 people were still in shelters there.
Navy chief Admiral M Nazmul Hassan has launched the Bangladesh Navy's Tree Plantation Campaign-2026 as part of the government's 25 crore tree drive.
