Abu Siddique

Contributing Editor, Bangladesh

About

Abu Siddique is an Environmental Journalist and Knowledge Management expert. He currently serves as Bangladesh’s Contributing Editor for Mongabay.com. He formerly worked with BRAC’s Climate Change Programme as a Senior Knowledge Management and Communications Specialist. Additionally, he has worked for several top national dailies, including The Business Standard, the Daily Sun, and the Dhaka Tribune. Apart from these, Siddique wrote for thethirdpole.net (Currently Dialogue Earth) and Climate Home News as a freelancer for several years. He has traveled to the nation’s most remote regions in search of stories. He obtained his Master’s in Project Management from Northeastern University, Toronto, in 2023 and his Certificate in Environmental Reporting from the International Institute for Journalism, Berlin, in 2012.

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Shanties stand along the bank of Buriganga River.

In Bangladesh, Ecologically Critical Areas exist only on paper

Abu Siddique 16 Dec 2022
Two western hoolock gibbons.

Trafficking and habitat loss spell doom for Bangladesh’s western hoolock gibbons

Rafiqul Islam 14 Dec 2022
Used polythene waste on the banks of Buriganga River.

Dhaka’s ailing sewage system threatens human and environmental health

S.M. Najmus Sakib 30 Nov 2022
Farmers harvesting eggplants.

In Bangladesh, popular eggplant comes with a side of lead. And cadmium

Abu Siddique 29 Nov 2022
A tiger in the Sundarbans.

Forest management tool could help rein in rampant wildlife trade in Bangladesh

Mahadi Al Hasnat 28 Nov 2022
Fish eggs from the Halda River.

Fish eggs return to Bangladesh’s Halda River following conservation efforts

Abu Siddique 2 Nov 2022
Fishermen making hilsa nets.

Saving the economically important hilsa fish comes at a cost to Bangladesh fishers

Abu Siddique 28 Oct 2022
E-waste management.

Bangladesh e-waste rules hang in limbo as electrical goods companies ask for delay

Maksuda Aziz 21 Oct 2022
A family clears overgrown aquatic weeds in a wetland.

Habitat loss, climate change threaten Bangladesh’s native freshwater fishes with extinction

Rafiqul Islam 20 Oct 2022
The Umngot River

Better management of shared waterways could benefit economy in Bangladesh, India

Abu Siddique 30 Sep 2022
Women in a garment factory in Bangladesh.

Bangladeshi industries explore renewables as power crisis looms

Abu Siddique 26 Sep 2022
Boats on the Padma River

Latest water-sharing deal between Bangladesh, India is ‘drop in the ocean’

Abu Siddique 14 Sep 2022
Fishermen going out to the river

For lightning-prone communities in Bangladesh, new warning system may not be enough

Rafiqul Islam 9 Sep 2022
A boy sorts through the waste in a landfill

Weak waste management leaves Dhaka communities at risk from landfill sites

S.M. Najmus Sakib 2 Sep 2022
Farmers with freshly harvested paddy.

Lack of finance prevents Bangladesh farmers from diversifying their rice crops

Abu Siddique 31 Aug 2022
Rainwater harvesting in a coastal town in Bangladesh.

Are Bangladesh’s development measures leading to climate change readiness or maladaptation? (commentary)

Saleemul Huq | Savio Rousseau Rozario | Md. Bodrud-Doza 18 Aug 2022
Banks of a river where sand is illegally mined.

Sand mining a boon for illegal industry at expense of Bangladesh’s environment

Abu Siddique 16 Aug 2022
Residents of Satkhira's coastal communities.

As stronger storms hit Bangladesh farmers, banks are climate collateral damage

Maksuda Aziz 15 Aug 2022
An Asian elephant in a forest in Bangladesh

Bangladesh struggles to protect the last of its last wild elephants

Rafiqul Islam 9 Aug 2022
People line up to collect water from a community tap.

Water-stressed Bangladesh looks to recharge its fast-depleting aquifers

Mahadi Al Hasnat 3 Aug 2022
Houses built atop a plinth on one of the islands.

Elevated homesteads give hope to flood-hit communities in Bangladesh

Abu Siddique 2 Aug 2022
Fishermen in the Sundarbans in Bangladesh.

Cut off from Sundarbans and denied compensation, Bangladesh communities face arrest

Abu Siddique 21 Jul 2022
A woman in Satkhira washes dishes in a pond.

For women on Bangladesh’s coast, rising seas pose a reproductive health dilemma

Jesmin Papri 8 Jul 2022
People wading through water.

‘The volume of water is beyond control’: Q&A with flood expert M. Monirul Qader Mirza

Abu Siddique 5 Jul 2022
Farmers processing the rice next to paddy fields in Bangladesh.

Climate change puts Bangladeshi farmers’ reliance on rice varieties to the test

Abu Siddique 23 Jun 2022
Street in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

World’s worst air pollution slashes 7 years off life expectancy in Bangladesh

Mahadi Al Hasnat 16 Jun 2022
A power plant under construction in Bangladesh.

Sluggish growth of renewables threatens Bangladesh’s clean-energy goals

Abu Siddique 19 Apr 2022

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