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Cultivating Resilience: Rooftop Gardening in a Rapidly Urbanizing World
Cities are growing at unprecedented rates: more crowded buildings, increased pavement, strained infrastructures, and overburdened food...
Najifa Alam Torsa
Oct 56 min read


Rethinking Urban Growth: Sustainability in South Asian Megacities
“By 2030, reduce the adverse per capita environmental impact of cities, including by paying special attention to air quality and...
Nazmunnaher Nipa
Oct 59 min read


The Lifecycle of Plastics: A Global Threat to Women’s Health
On 30 January 2025, at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine’s (SMFM) annual meeting in the United States, a study revealed that...
Alkuma Rumi
Oct 55 min read


Agenda for Urgently Cooling Cities of Bangladesh
1. Introduction Rapid urbanization in Bangladesh has resulted in densely built environments with impermeable surfaces and limited...
Dr. Md Nazirul Islam Sarker
Oct 55 min read


Sustainable Food Production
The Food Food today is produced using technologies that are not sustainable. This document details new methods of producing food which...
Nicole Haragutchi
Oct 55 min read


Greening the Desk: From Paper Trails to Climate Goals
Climate change is a natural phenomenon. It is inevitable that nature will change and rehabilitate itself on its own with its...
Rumana Sharmin, Meraz Ahmed & Md. Amran Hossain
Oct 54 min read


The Forgotten River Koimet
The silver currents danced over smooth stones, birds chirped in the trees, and frogs croaked in the reeds. Upstream, the water roared as...
Sheila Jepkoech
Oct 53 min read


The Voice of Water: Industry versus Life
Critical narrative about a development project in the RMG sector in Bangladesh “Ecological transition”? New catchword, new checkbox in...
Cynthia Mela
Oct 56 min read


Invisible Cities: The Global Air Quality Crisis and the Hidden Risks We Breathe
On a humid morning in cities from Cairo to Jakarta, a silent hazard rises with the sun: a thin haze that drifts through open windows and...
Tahsin Tabassum
Oct 54 min read


Oceans in Transition: The Journey of Earth's Changing Oceans
The five oceans of the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic continue to undergo history as the most dramatic evolution that is ever witnessed in the planet. Inspired by the earliest oceans to enable the earliest complexity of life to modern day oceans struggling with unprecedented change, oceanic systems have weathered geologic times, biological ingenuity, and now human impact. The Deep Past: Genesis of Current Marine Life The formation of oceans started a couple o
Nature insights Desk
Oct 15 min read


Reimagining Urban Heat Islands: A Critical Perspective on the Promise and Peril of Thermal Energy Harvesting in Cities
The urban heat island (UHI) effect, a phenomenon where cities experience elevated temperatures relative to their rural surroundings, has...
Alden Sevilla, Minori Simizu, Rose Ruongneisong
Sep 255 min read


Water Diplomacy and the Impact of Dams and Barrages
What is Water Diplomacy? Water diplomacy involves using diplomatic methods and strategies to resolve conflicts over water resources...
Siana Tabassum
Sep 254 min read


Earth Unveiled: Discover, Analyze, Act
Prologue: The Awakening The first time I truly “saw” the Earth was when I interacted with kids during a nature safari at Mlango Moja...
Lydia Kalekye
Sep 255 min read


Dhaka Without Nature? Rethinking Urban Sustainability
A Boy in the Heat It is late July, and Dhaka feels like a city on fire. In a narrow lane of Sutrapur, twelve-year-old Rafiq tries to...
M. Zakir Hossain Khan, Sabrin Sultana, Fuad Hassan
Sep 256 min read


Urbanism Reimagined: Rapid ReLeaf with ZEP Bi-Zone Playbook
1. Cities at the Climate Crossroads From Babylon’s terraces to Tokyo’s mandates, elevated greenery has been symbolic—but inadequate. With...
Nazim Jamshed
Sep 243 min read


Destroying the Forests to Save the Forests?
How can we trust the promises made at COP if they come at the expense of the very ecosystem we are supposed to protect? In a move that...
Era Robbani
Sep 242 min read


When Earth Roared: The Fiery Cataclysms That Shaped Our World
When we think of volcanic eruptions, images of fiery explosions and rivers of molten rock might come to mind. But the largest volcanic...
Nature insights Desk
Sep 242 min read


The Ocean's Epic: From Ancient Cradle to Imperiled Frontier
The ocean. It covers over 70% of our planet, a vast, shimmering expanse that is the cradle of all known life and the engine driving...
Nature insights Desk
Sep 243 min read


Plastic Bans Without a Plan? Why Bangladesh Must Rethink Its Approach to Single - Use Plastics
As plastic waste chokes rivers, clogs drain, and contaminates food chains, Bangladesh - like many nations - has doubled down on banning...
M Mofazzal Hossain
Sep 244 min read


Shithi Nakha: A Sacred Festival bridging Culture and Conservation
Among Nepal’s vibrant Newar community, ancient rhythms still pulse through the city of Bhaktapur, echoing a reverence for water, earth,...
Najifa Alam Torsa
Jul 112 min read
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