Tobacco cultivation expands in Rangpur, Lalmonirhat amid profit lure
9 November 2025, 13:58 PM
World Habitat Day: Habitats not just for humanity, but for life
4 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Providing permanent support to the people of Tanguar Haor
16 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Solving the climate change problem
28 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Desertification And Drought Day: The threat of parched land
16 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Conservation delayed is conservation missed
1 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Why should you care about the air you breathe?
22 March 2020, 18:00 PM
A breath of not so fresh air
20 February 2020, 18:00 PM
Save the environment, not posters
24 January 2020, 18:00 PM
Why count birds?
13 January 2020, 18:00 PM
The superior choice
Last week, Bangladesh's Power Development Board (PDB) and India's National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) announced that they will form a committee to decide whether to build a large coal plant or solar farm in India for additional power import into Bangladesh.
14 February 2018, 18:00 PM
How natural disasters undermine schooling
In 2010, heavy monsoons led to devastating floods in Pakistan that destroyed 11,000 schools. Thousands of additional schools had to be used as community shelters, preventing them from operating as classrooms.
31 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Water pollution: Solutions that actually work
As the incumbent Awami League government gears up for crucial parliamentary elections to test its popularity, it continues to face numerous questions about its administrative successes and failures.
5 January 2018, 18:00 PM
How to reduce air pollution effectively
Ensuring clean air is one of the major environmental challenges in Bangladesh's larger cities. Although air quality management is a key
17 December 2017, 18:00 PM
Why Bangladesh needs more ambition
In the world of climate change negotiations, “loss and damage” is arguably one of the most debated issues.
16 December 2017, 18:00 PM
Can we absorb the shock of climate migration?
In 2016, I led my band of misfits, aka Team “Little Wins,” to the Shanghai semi-finals of the Hult Prize. For those of you who may not know, the Hult prize is the world's biggest platform for social startups emerging from universities all across the world.
6 December 2017, 18:00 PM
Power of the sun
The sun is the source of almost unlimited energy. Given the sheer scale of the sun's energy, a point is often made in the energy literature that the sunlight striking the earth's surface in just one hour delivers...
26 November 2017, 18:00 PM
Global goals and greener travel
Unlike India, Bangladesh is comparatively an off-the-beaten-track destination. Tourists who choose to visit the country are likely to have genuine curiosity about the land and its people, which offers an opportunity to promote responsible and sustainable means of tourism in the country.
26 September 2017, 18:00 PM
The way forward as floodwater recedes
What's needed is a massive early recovery effort to rebuild the livelihoods of the affected people. Roads and embankments need to be rebuilt preferably through “Cash for Work” programmes, which will help give the people access to much-needed cash.
7 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Why we need gender-sensitive disaster planning
At present, issues leading to global warming and climate change have arguably become a global priority. Scholars today recognise various vulnerable populations and claim that the impacts of climate change are not spread equally in terms of location, economic status, gender or age.
5 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Building climate-resilient health systems
Climate change is happening. In recent years average temperatures across the globe have increased, with significant impact on humanity's most precious resource—the environment. Water systems are being stressed. Food sources are being imperilled. And areas once safe for settlement are being threatened and erased.
31 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Preparing for the next disaster
Floods, cyclones, tidal surges, landslides and other natural disasters have always happened in Bangladesh during predictable times of
30 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Dhaka and her rivers
Dhaka city, established by the Mughals on the banks of the Buriganga, is surrounded by six rivers like a garland.
6 August 2017, 18:00 PM
An alternative energy future for Bangladesh
Off the coast of Bangladesh sits the small island of Manpura. Shaped like a banana when viewed from above, this will be the country's first “green island” powered by only renewable energy.
31 July 2017, 18:00 PM
The rising stakes for ocean governance
World oceans play the crucial role of a life support in poverty alleviation, food security, human health, and curbing climate change.
2 July 2017, 18:00 PM
A reality check
On June 1 President Trump declared his administration's intention to withdraw from the Paris Agreement (PA).
18 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Effective management of landslides
At least 141 people (at the time of writing), including children and four army personnel, were killed in separate series of landslides triggered by heavy rains in Rangamati, Bandarban, and Chittagong on June 13, 2017.
14 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Do we really care about saving our environment?
The theme of this year's World Environment Day on June 5 was “connecting people to nature”. The idea behind the theme was to urge people to get outdoors and into nature.
6 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Woodsman, spare that tree!
Did not Joyce Kilmer say, “I have never seen a poem as beautiful as a tree”?
5 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Boosting growth by green design
Climate change is the result of human activity. That activity is, for the most part, work or work-related. It is only logical then that the world of work has a key role to play in finding a solution to this pressing issue.
4 June 2017, 18:00 PM