Environment Research Archives

Amazon survives on Sahara Desert dust: A surprising interconnection of nature

Desk ReporterAugust 3, 2026August 3, 2026

August 3, 2026August 3, 202618

NASA scientists have found surprising evidence of how deserts on one side of the world keep the deep forests on the other side alive. Satellite data analysis shows that dust from the Sahara Desert in Africa, which is rich in minerals, serves as the main fertilizer for the Amazon forest......

Biodiversity

Responsibility Is Not Authority: A Vision for Women-Led Resilience on Bangladesh’s Coast

Desk ReporterJuly 23, 2026July 24, 2026

July 23, 2026July 24, 2026101

OP-ED — PART TWO OF TWO By Dr. Nusrat Hafiz In Part One of this series, I described a tornado that spun through Sugandha Point in Cox’s Bazar this week, and the wider pattern it belongs to: a coastline where cyclones, floods, landslides, and now sudden tornadoes are compounding faster......

Dr. Nusrat Hafiz

The Wind That Warns: What Cox’s Bazar’s Tornado Should Teach Us

Desk ReporterJuly 21, 2026July 21, 2026

July 21, 2026July 21, 202672

OP-ED — PART ONE OF TWO By Dr. Nusrat Hafiz Yesterday, on 17 July 2026, at around 2:45 pm, a tornado touched down at Sugandha Point on Cox’s Bazar beach. It lasted three to five minutes. According to local reporting, it damaged tourist chairs and umbrellas placed along the beach,......

Environment Research

“Promise to make Bangladesh greener: Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s plans for eco-friendly growth”

Desk ReporterJuly 13, 2026July 13, 2026

July 13, 2026July 13, 202678

Development and the environment are not rivals: Prime Minister’s emphasis on planting 250 million trees, protecting rivers and managing waste. Greening is one of the keys to sustainable development in this time of extreme climate change and environmental imbalance. Prime Minister Tarique Rahman wants to create a better Bangladesh by......

Environment Research

“New species of ‘Tree Frog’ found in the deep forests of Bandarban: A boost for biodiversity”

Desk ReporterJuly 7, 2026July 7, 2026

July 7, 2026July 7, 2026115

The Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh is home to an immense mystery of nature. A team of researchers from Dhaka University and IUCN recently found a brand-new kind of ‘Tree Frog’ in the Sangu-Matamuhuri Reserve Forest in Bandarban. This groundbreaking discovery (New Life/Research) proves that there are still many species......

Environment Research

Bioremediation Bacteria to Save the Buriganga: A New Scientific Weapon

Desk ReporterJuly 5, 2026July 7, 2026

July 5, 2026July 7, 202688

Bangladesh capital Dhaka’s lifeline, the Buriganga River, has for decades been poisoned by industrial waste and tannery chemicals, turning it into a toxic water body. Conventional methods like dredging or chemical treatment have proven inadequate to fully clean the river. To tackle this challenge, scientists at the Bangladesh Council of......

Environment Research

Space Solar Power: Japan’s Bold Project to Beam Energy from Orbit

Desk ReporterJuly 2, 2026July 3, 2026

July 2, 2026July 3, 202663

One of the biggest limitations of solar power is that it doesn’t work at night or under cloudy skies. Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has unveiled a solution that sounds like science fiction: Space Solar Power. How It Works Constant sunlight in space: Unlike Earth, space has no clouds or......

Biodiversity

Discovery of “Dark Oxygen” in the Pacific: A New Scientific Perspective on the Origins of Life

Desk ReporterJune 28, 2026

June 28, 202688

For a long time, scientists believed that oxygen on Earth was produced only through photosynthesis by plants and algae — a process dependent on sunlight. But recently, at a depth of nearly 13,000 feet in the Pacific Ocean, far beyond the reach of sunlight, researchers discovered vast amounts of “Dark......

Environment Research

The Great Green Wall to Save the Sahel: A Continental Green Revolution for Africa

Desk ReporterJune 25, 2026

June 25, 2026116

Climate change is driving the Sahara Desert rapidly southward across Africa, swallowing up agricultural land. To halt this extreme desertification and reduce global carbon emissions, the African Union, with international cooperation, has launched a unique initiative to stop the Sahara’s advance. By planting trees across vast areas of the Sahel......

Bangladesh

Climate Migrants and the Concept of Secondary Cities: Strategic Advances of Delta Plan 2100

Desk ReporterJune 17, 2026June 17, 2026

June 17, 2026June 17, 202669

Because of climate change, river erosion, rising sea levels, and severe droughts are constantly forcing thousands of people in Bangladesh to leave their homes and land. These climate migrants mainly move toward the capital, Dhaka, in search of work, causing population pressure on the capital city, Dhaka to exceed its......

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