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Protecting Nature Is the Biggest Challenge
Securing food, water, air and nature is the greatest challenge for a sustainable future, and it depends on enforcing existing laws and changing how we live.
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Agriculture and nature
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Protecting Farmland Is the Challenge for Food Security
Bangladesh is losing farmland to industry, housing and roads, and a planned law, mini cold stores and fairer compensation aim to protect farmers and food security.
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Swarnalata, a vine rich in medicinal properties, is disappearing
Swarnalata, the parasitic giant dodder long used in herbal medicine, is disappearing from the Bangladeshi countryside as its host trees are pruned or lost.
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Why Trees Are Needed to Keep the Environment in Balance
A student writer argues that trees are indispensable to the environment and urges schools, colleges and universities to lead tree-planting drives.
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Let the Country Grow in the Shade of Nature
A columnist argues that Bangladesh must develop without destroying its forests, rivers and wetlands, drawing on the century-old koroch swamp forest by Kawadighi haor.
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Awareness Is Vital to Reduce Pesticide Risk
Pesticides are essential to modern farming, but careless use endangers health and the environment, so farmers need to follow basic safety rules.
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Why Vultures Are Disappearing
Vultures, which clean the environment by eating carcasses, are fast disappearing in Bangladesh, with the cattle drug diclofenac identified as a main cause.
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Fertiliser Market in the Grip of a Syndicate, Prices Up on Artificial Crisis
A government intelligence agency report says fertiliser transport contractors and dealers are hoarding stocks to create an artificial shortage and overcharge farmers, even though warehouses hold enough for three months.
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Why Do Lajjaboti Leaves Fold When Touched?
A look at the lajjaboti plant, why its leaves fold at a touch, its features and the medicinal uses attributed to it.
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The Plant Called 'Mother of a Thousand Children'
The mother of thousands is an easy-care succulent whose leaf edges sprout tiny plantlets, but it is toxic to pets.
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Uncontrolled Urea Use Threatens Agriculture and the Environment
Urea gives crops a quick boost, but excessive and uncontrolled use harms soil, water, air and biodiversity.
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News That Harms Agriculture and Farmers Must Not Be Published: Anwar Faruk
Former agriculture secretary Anwar Faruk said agriculture reporting must raise problems but should not publish negative news that harms farmers.
EnvironmentOxfam and Curtin University launch urban climate and disaster risk hub in Dhaka
Oxfam in Bangladesh and Australia's Curtin University launched the Urban Climate and Disaster Risk Reduction Hub in Dhaka on 2 July 2025, to tackle urban heat, pollution and flood risk through research, advocacy and community-led innovation.