Opinion: Protecting coasts can give BIMSTEC an urgent sense of purpose

October 28, 2020

Millions living around the Bay of Bengal need urgent protection from climate change impacts such as sea level rise and more severe cyclones

Finances force Bangladesh to reconsider coal plants

October 19, 2020

Chinese and Japanese investors have lost interest in funding coal projects due to high costs, pushing the country towards natural gas – which will do little to solve problems of overcapacity, expensive power and carbon emissions

Air pollution could worsen Covid-19 outbreak in South Asia

October 12, 2020

High levels of air pollution this winter could exacerbate the severity and spread of the coronavirus, warn health experts, as they call on governments to clean up their act

To India’s chagrin, Bangladesh turns to China to transform Teesta river

September 28, 2020

After failing to sign a water sharing agreement with India, Bangladesh receives support from China to develop a USD 1 billion engineering scheme on the Teesta

Steep global biodiversity loss puts humanity in peril

September 16, 2020

The world is losing biodiversity at an unprecedented rate, posing grave danger to human health and prosperity, the UN Convention on Biological Diversity warned in its flagship report

Bangladeshi fishers cannot find Hilsa in peak season

September 03, 2020

Perpetually indebted, and hit by recurrent fishing bans, millions of fishers are in danger of slipping below starvation level