EnvironmentRhodes University researchers found that people along South Africa's Kat River, which waters smallholder and citrus farms and livestock, report poorer water, fewer reeds and almost no fish after two decades of sewage discharge.
EnvironmentA study led by Chittagong University botanists for the research group ECHO identified 1,029 plant species on the Halda's banks, 517 medicinal and 23 endangered, warned that 100 more could become endangered without protection, and listed 29 sources of pollution.
EnvironmentIn Bhairab, Kishoreganj, rubbish piles up on the riverbank, municipal waste and plastic go straight into the Meghna and canals are being filled in, threatening aquatic life and biodiversity.
FisheriesAfter more than doubling over two decades, Bangladesh's hilsa production fell in fiscal 2023-24 and 2024-25; researchers blame weak enforcement, river pollution, shifting chars and unplanned sand mining.
FisheriesWildlife conservationist Sarwar Pathan writes on the folklore and life cycle of the bahok, or Indian mottled eel, and why it vanished from the Shitalakshya: pollution, habitat loss and overfishing.
EnvironmentWaste from the city corporation area via Ananya residential area and from the Bahir Signal industrial zone are the main sources; this year's carp spawn collection fell to about 6,000 kg.
EnvironmentThe coal-laden MV Fulbari sank in the Pasur channel inside the Sundarbans after an oil tanker hit it; its nine crew swam to safety, and the Forest Department is checking whether coal is spreading.
Untreated effluent from factories in Bhaluka, Mymensingh, reaches the 45km Khiru river through canals and drains; in the dry season the water turns black or blue, no fish survive, and farmers say irrigating with it damages their crops.
EnvironmentA World Bank-funded Department of Environment project going to ECNEC would use drones to watch waste dumping along the Turag, enforce treatment plants at 173 factories and monitor water quality in real time.
EnvironmentStructures on both banks and refuse from markets and drains have silted up the Nabaganga where it runs past Magura town; fishers say there is nothing left to catch, and the water board says dredging of 44 km of the river will start soon.
FisheriesResidents say a gang poisoned the Dhalai River in Kamalganj, Moulvibazar; the upazila health officer warns that cooking does not fully destroy the poison in dead fish.
EnvironmentThe old courses of the Barahi, Swaramangala and Daya rivers through Rajshahi are now drains carrying untreated hospital, industrial and household waste into the Baranai, where fish have died and riverside residents report skin disease; a treatment plant is still at the planning stage.
EnvironmentUnder the Bhandardah bridge in Domjur, the water of the Saraswati bubbled as if boiling for more than an hour; residents blame factory effluent and gas from rotting sludge.
