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Extreme heat is creating a workplace health crisis in Bangladesh’s garment industry

Mongabay.com 6 Nov 2026

Fishing cat rescue-and-release offers potential model for conservation in Bangladesh

Naina Rao 29 Oct 2026
Md. Mizan Mia, a resident of Katanishar village of Sarail subdistrict, calms his 9-month-old female Sarail hound at his residence. Image by Kamran Reza Chowdhury.

A rare hound with a storied past faces an uncertain future in Bangladesh

Kamran Reza Chowdhury 28 Oct 2026
A male great hornbill approaches the nest in which its mate stays with the eggs or chicks.

Bangladesh’s hornbills face hunting risk during breeding season

Sifayet Ullah 26 Oct 2026
Arzu Begum stands by the door of her house in the poor Mirpur area of Dhaka in July, 2022.

Bangladesh’s climate migrants are arriving in cities unprepared to protect them

Usraat Fahmidah 23 Oct 2026

Bangladesh garment factory workers bear the brunt of rising temperatures

Usraat Fahmidah 21 Oct 2026
Houses nearly submerged due to flooding in Sirajganj, 2020.

Bank credit remains scarce in Bangladesh where climate risks are highest

Sajibur Rahman 20 Oct 2026

Dhaka’s waste-to-energy plant face backlash over air pollution

Mongabay.com 9 Oct 2026
Ring-tailed lemurs in a zoo.

Did two of the lemurs stolen in Bangladesh end up in India? Officials are investigating

Sadiqur Rahman 8 Oct 2026

Endangered dolphins survive in a Bangladesh river so polluted it’s ‘not livable’ for fish

Mongabay.com 1 Oct 2026
Families are relocated due to flooding and landslides in the Balukhali Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar.

Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camps become increasingly vulnerable to landslides

Sadiqur Rahman 25 Sep 2026
A waste picker works amid thick smoke rising from the vast garbage mounds at Dhaka North City Corporation’s Aminbazar landfill in Savar. She was looking for plastic or other valuable recyclable items there.

Dhaka’s waste-to-energy project faces opposition from pollution-weary residents

Eyamin Sajid 15 Sep 2026
A Ganges river dolphin in Bangladesh.

Against the odds, endangered dolphins survive in Bangladesh’s polluted river

Md Jahidul Islam 14 Sep 2026
A Sundarban tiger swims in the deep water.

Study analyzes danger of parasites to Bengal tigers in South Asia

Sadiqur Rahman 4 Sep 2026

Biomass cooking fuels raise toxic metal exposure risks in Bangladesh, study finds

Usraat Fahmidah 1 Sep 2026
The coal-fired Payra Power Plant. Image by Muhammad Mostafigur Rahman.

Failed environmental safeguards leave coastal Bangladesh facing coal pollution

Rashidul Hasan 28 Aug 2026
A part of Dhaka.

Bangladesh’s green building drive grows beyond factories amid climate pressures

Ibrahim Hossain Ovi 24 Aug 2026
A solar power plant beside farmland and salt pans in Ukhiya, Cox's Bazar.

Despite energy crisis, Bangladesh’s factories are slow to adopt solar power: Study

Md Asaduz Zaman 18 Aug 2026
A capped langur

New ropeways aim to save wildlife in Bangladesh’s fragmented habitats

Sadiqur Rahman 11 Aug 2026
An entrepreneur extracts banana fiber from the stems of banana plants in Pabna, west-central Bangladesh. Image by Md Hafijul Islam.

A banana byproduct transforms farm waste into profits in Bangladesh

Md Jahidul Islam 7 Aug 2026
Onions in jute sacks in Bogra.

Jute loses ground to plastic despite Bangladesh’s packaging law

Kamran Reza Chowdhury 6 Aug 2026
A local community takes part in a tree plantation project in 2018.

Bangladesh plans to plant 250 million trees. Keeping them alive will be harder

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Aug 2026
A shipbreaker with a sledgehammer amidst ship parts, Chittagong.

Bangladesh shipbreakers push back against stricter environmental standards

Ashraful Haque 27 Jul 2026
Forest Department officials along with local volunteers pose for photographs after wildlife of several species were rescued. Image by Siddiqur Rahman Rabbi.

Volunteers play crucial role in Bangladesh’s wildlife crime control efforts

Sadiqur Rahman 24 Jul 2026

How saline drinking water raises preeclampsia risks in coastal Bangladesh (commentary)

Ashik Rubaiyat 23 Jul 2026
Climate refugees Rabeya Khatoon, right, and Moriom Bibi, who lost their homes to cyclone Aila, work at a brick field on the outskirts of Dhaka in the heat, 2009.

Extreme heat is eroding health, productivity and incomes of Dhaka’s informal workers

Md Jahidul Islam 21 Jul 2026
A local community takes part in a tree plantation project in 2018.

Conservationists urge caution over Bangladesh’s plan to plant 250 million trees

Abu Siddique 20 Jul 2026
Sitesh Ranjan Deb at his facility. Image via Agence France-Presse (AFP)

Sitesh Ranjan Deb turned a hunter’s knowledge to saving wildlife

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Jul 2026

Humans’ relationship with nature: Interview with ethnobotanist Pavel Partha

Usraat Fahmidah 13 Jul 2026
The Matarbari coal power plant and deep seaport.

Fossil fuel-based mega projects displace locals in Bangladesh, pushing youth out

Eyamin Sajid 13 Jul 2026
The rescued tiger at Khulna Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center. Image courtesy of the Bangladesh Forest Department.

Bangladesh gets ready for its first release of tiger rescued from poachers’ trap

Abu Siddique 10 Jul 2026

Bangladesh relocates refugees after landslide kills at least 5 children

Associated Press 9 Jul 2026

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