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Environment Under Threat, a New Drive for Awareness
As plastic and polythene pollution damages rivers, fish and farmland in Barguna's Patharghata, local man Shafikul Islam Khokon is campaigning to get people to give up plastic.
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Daily lifeMosquito-repelling plants: what tulsi, mint and citronella can and cannot do
Tulsi, mint, lavender and citronella give off scents mosquitoes dislike, but in Kenyan trials the best potted plant kept away only about 40 percent of mosquitoes, and researchers called such plants a complement to bed nets, not a replacement.
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Botanical Gardens to Be Developed as Nature Conservation Sites
Environment adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan says the government is working to develop the country's botanical gardens as nature conservation sites.
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Life on the Char Is in Others' Hands, Yet It Keeps Its Rhythm
Residents of Bangladesh's coastal chars live with storms, floods and hardship yet cling to their homesteads, bound together by mutual dependence and hospitality.
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Planting Trees Can Cut Dust Pollution, as Seen Near Padma Bridge
Environment adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan said planting trees on road dividers can reduce dust pollution, as already seen around the Padma Bridge.
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Permission From Authorities Needed Before Felling Trees: High Court
The High Court has ruled that trees planted under social forestry must not be cut and that permission from special committees is needed to fell trees.
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Ali Researching 'Climate-Smart Agriculture'
Titumir College student Ali Ahmad, whose research focuses on climate-smart agriculture, was one of ten chosen nationally for a Swedish embassy fellowship.
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Migratory Birds Enchant Lakshmipur
For eight winters flocks of lesser whistling ducks have rested at Janeshwar Dighi in Lakshmipur Sadar, where villagers and the pond's lessee protect them.
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Task Force to Be Formed to Curb Air Pollution: Environment Adviser
Environment adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan said Dhaka's road dividers will be greened and a task force with a time-bound action plan set up to fight air pollution.
EnvironmentBangladesh's rivers under encroachment and pollution: a researcher's call to rescue them
In a January 2025 opinion piece, researcher Dr Forkan Ali argued that encroachment and pollution have left most of Bangladesh's rivers dead or half-dead, and urged action to rescue them now.
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JU's Thousand-Crore Buildings Also Risk Standing Empty
An IMED report on Jahangirnagar University's development project found about 1,000 trees felled, birds losing habitat, and a risk that new residential buildings stay empty.
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Golpata Palms Are Disappearing From the Coast
Climate change, rising salinity, river erosion and a lack of cultivation and care are wiping out the gol palm from coastal settlements, environmentalists warn.
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Mountains Are Vital to the Environment and to Life
A column marking International Mountain Day on the role of mountains in supplying water and sheltering biodiversity, and the damage being done to hills in Bangladesh.