Environment
Over 100 Organisations Plant Trees and Form Human Chains Nationwide
More than a hundred organisations, led by Mission Green Bangladesh, held simultaneous tree planting and human chains across the country on World Environment Day 2026.
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Environment
Dhaka Not Yet Fully Liveable for Lack of Able Leadership, Says Jamaat Leader
Launching a tree planting drive that swaps plastic bottles for free saplings, Jamaat's Dhaka North chief said Dhaka is still not fully liveable for lack of far-sighted planning and able leadership.
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Big, Old Trees Are Disappearing From Villages
The giant shade trees that were once at the heart of village life in Bangladesh are vanishing, cut for houses and roads and not replaced by trees that give the same shade.
Environment
Young People Take the Environmental Movement Online
Young environmental activists describe how online campaigns are turning into tree planting, clean-up drives and biodiversity work, and why online support does not always show up in the field.
Environment
Tree Planting in Dhaka to Mark World Environment Day
Environmental group Green Concern's Foundation planted neem saplings on a road divider in Tejgaon, Dhaka, to mark World Environment Day.
Environment
No Alternative to Protecting the Environment for a Green Bangladesh
A public health researcher argues that pollution, deforestation and climate change make environmental protection a question of health, economy and national development for Bangladesh.
Agrotech
Toxic E-Waste Threatens the Environment, Agriculture and Human Life
Heavy metals from discarded electronics are seeping into farmland, water and the food chain, and the writer calls for recycling and safe disposal, including of farm sensors.
HealthSweet-shop chain offers 3,000 indoor plants with cake purchases in Dhaka
A Dhaka sweets and bakery chain said in May 2026 it would give about 3,000 indoor plants to customers buying cakes at ten outlets, citing the city's air pollution. Research up to that date found potted plants do little to clean indoor air.
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Bangladesh Will Be Among the World's Extreme-Heat Countries, Study Says
A study led by University of Oxford researchers says Bangladesh will be one of six countries with the most people living in extreme heat by 2050.
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Why Climate Change Is Speeding Up
In this opinion piece, environmentalist Hasan Zahid argues that wars in Ukraine, Gaza and Iran are adding greenhouse gases and pollution and accelerating climate change.
CropsHaor Boro Flood Losses: A Call for an Integrated Policy to Protect Farmers
After late-April rain and hill runoff drowned boro paddy in the haor wetlands, a 9 May 2026 Jagonews24 column by NCP farmers' wing leader Sayed Uzzal called for embankment repair, direct paddy purchase, easier credit, crop insurance and an integrated, farmer-centred policy.
Environment
Forest Felled Unchecked in Alikadam, Wildlife in Decline
A timber racket is clearing around 200 acres of natural forest in remote Chaikkhyang on the Alikadam-Thanchi border, cutting hills for roads and drying up the streams Mro villages depend on.
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Krishnachura Adorns Nature in Moulvibazar
In mid-Baishakh, blood-red krishnachura and jarul flowers have brightened Moulvibazar's towns, villages and haor areas.