A local youth volunteer group planted more than 200 betel nut saplings along a road in Kumrabaria village, Jhenaidah, to raise awareness of climate change and protect the natural balance.
The palmyra palm, which lives for more than a century, helps protect against lightning, shelters birds, supplies food, crafts and building material, and is easy to plant on high ground.
Technology, services and value addition could make agriculture a dignified, profitable business sector for young Bangladeshis rather than a last resort.
With climate change making farming ever more uncertain, the writer argues adaptation, resilient varieties, water and soil management and digital tools must be at the heart of Bangladesh's agricultural strategy.
Visitors and buyers are crowding the month-long National Tree Fair 2026 in Dhaka as it enters its final stage.
Dipto luchi, or Peperomia pellucida, is a fast-growing medicinal herb that can easily be grown in pots on a rooftop, balcony or in a yard.
CropsFireflies are not flies but beetles of the family Lampyridae. They flash a cold light made by luciferin and luciferase to find mates, and habitat loss, light pollution and pesticides are their main threats.
CropsIn an essay published by Jagonews24 two days before World Nature Conservation Day on 28 July 2026, the writer argued that with forests shrinking, pollution rising and the climate changing, protecting nature falls to every citizen, not only the government.
A nature camp at the National Botanical Garden in Mirpur took children aged five to 15 away from screens to learn about birds and wildlife.
CropsThe Bengal slow loris, Endangered on the IUCN Red List, is straying into villages in Khagrachhari as its food trees disappear; in April 2025 the Forest Department rescued two within a week and released them in the Alutila reserved forest.
FlowersIn an essay published by Jagonews24 on 21 July 2026, poet Nazim Al Mamun described the beli (Arabian jasmine) bush in his village courtyard, whose evening flowers he strings into garlands and gives away rather than sells.
EnvironmentOn 19 July 2026 Gono Bishwabidyalay student Tahmid Hasan described in Jagonews24 a family of white-breasted waterhens (dahuk) raising chicks in an abandoned pond behind his house; the bird is a common resident whose village ponds are disappearing.
Though the Sundarbans tiger count has risen to 125, climate change, salinity and habitat loss threaten the Royal Bengal tiger unless conservation is stepped up.
