Fisheries
The Rare 'Bacha' Fish
The bacha, a silvery river fish once plentiful in the Padma, Brahmaputra and Chalan Beel, is now critically endangered and close to extinction in Bangladesh.
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Environment
Trees a Thousand Years Old: Unlocking the Secret of a Long Life
Scientists have recently learned why the ginkgo can live for more than a thousand years, and other trees are among the oldest living things on Earth.
Vegetables
Vegetable Farming Brings Good Times for Brahmanbaria Farmer Mohiuddin
Starting with a Tk 30,000 loan in 2008, Mohiuddin Mia of Brahmanbaria now grows vegetables on 25 bighas and supplies markets across the district and beyond.
Agribusiness
Kushtia Growers Prosper Selling Flower Seedlings
Kushtia's nurseries are selling more flower seedlings as winter deepens, earning growers more than conventional crops, though owners say they get no government support or loans.
Environment
Keep Green Plants in the Office to Ease Stress, Study Suggests
Researchers in Japan found that office workers felt less stressed after spending a few minutes looking at a green plant on their desk.
Vegetables
Vegetables Turn Rangpur's Chakla Village Green
Farmers in Chakla village of Taraganj, Rangpur, have turned from loss-making rice and potato to year-round commercial vegetable growing, and many have prospered.
World
Venomous Snakes Kill More People in DR Congo Than War
Snakebite is quietly killing close to 150,000 people a year in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a crisis a photographer set out to document.
Daily life
Chattogram's Pitha: Binni Rice Pitha
How to make binni rice pitha, a Chattogram griddle cake of ground sticky rice filled with sugar and grated coconut.
Fruits
Ghatail's Shamsul Succeeds With Orange Farming
A teacher in Ghatail, Tangail, has grown sweet China oranges on more than a hundred trees, inspiring farmers from nearby areas to plant orchards of their own.
Organic
Earthworms Changed His Fortune
A returnee from Singapore in Dohar, Dhaka, who lost his savings in business, rebuilt his life by producing earthworm compost for local farmers.
Environment
How Animals Are Adapting to City Life
From crows that use cars as nutcrackers in Japan, scientists are learning how city life is changing animal behaviour far faster than evolution usually does.
Fisheries
Tk 11 Lakh Profit in Five Months From Shing Farming in 32-Decimal Pond
A Mymensingh farmer following BFRI's intensive shing farming technology earned Tk 11 lakh after costs in five months from a 32-decimal pond.
Crops
A Yellow Sea to the Horizon
Tangail's fields have turned a sea of yellow as mustard is grown on more land this year, with farmers hoping for a bumper crop and beekeepers for 150 tonnes of honey.
Environment
Australia's Bushfires: New Life Emerges From the Ruins
Amid bushfires that killed at least 500 million animals, a photographer captured grass and buds sprouting through the ash in New South Wales.
Environment
Rats Are Halting the Spread of Toxic Toads
Australian water rats called rakali have learned to eat toxic cane toads safely by precisely removing their non-toxic organs.
World
Seven New Names on UNESCO's World Heritage List
UNESCO's World Heritage Committee, at its 43rd session in Baku, added new natural and cultural sites to its list.
Environment
Animals Lost in the Last Century That We Will Never See Again, and One That Came Back
Extinction is far from rare, with an estimated 10,000 species lost each year, and some familiar animals have disappeared within living memory.
Environment
Modern Humans Came From a Lake Region in Botswana, Study Says
A study places the homeland of all humans alive today at a vanished lake in northern Botswana, though other researchers are sceptical.
Daily life
Chattogram's Pitha: Modhu Bhat
How to make modhu bhat, a Chattogram sweet rice dish set with sprouted rice powder and served with coconut and milk.
Organic
Vermicompost Makes Patiya's Sohaf Uddin Self-Reliant
A 31-year-old from Patiya in Chattogram who left school after class eight now produces three tonnes of vermicompost a month and runs a seed and fertiliser shop.