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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 5, 20254 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 5, 20253 min read


Cities Under Pressure: Applying the Natural Rights Index to Guide Urban Sustainability
Urban sustainability has emerged as a dominant framework for designing and evaluating city environments. But is it a genuine solution to...
M. Zakir Hossain Khan and Zainab Khan Roza
Oct 5, 20255 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 5, 20256 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 5, 20254 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 1, 20255 min read


INC‑5.2: Defining the Future of the Global Plastics Treaty
The global effort to create a plastics treaty is like a story with a crucial and uncertain ending. All the characters are in a room in...
Zainab Khan Roza
Sep 29, 20253 min read


Blue (2017)
Director: Karina Holden Genre: Environmental Documentary BLUE takes you on a powerful journey into the ocean’s depths, capturing this...
Zainab Khan Roza
Sep 29, 20251 min read


The Tale of Planktons: A Small Micros with a Big Job
Luci , a Zooplankton Welcome back, eco-enthusiasts! Today’s episode comes live from somewhere in the sunlit zone of the ocean, where the...
Zainab Khan Roza
Sep 29, 20253 min read


Sea You Never: Plastic’s Vacation Is Forever
– A shiny material with a dirty legacy Nature Insights is here in the Pacific Ocean, where all the plastic we’ve tossed out is having...
Zainab Khan Roza
Sep 29, 20254 min read


Yale Student Environmental Coalition: Driving Change Through Student Action
For nearly four decades, the Yale Student Environmental Coalition (YSEC) has stood at the forefront of student-led environmental...
Tahsin Tabassum
Sep 29, 20252 min read


The Grand Tour of Forgotten Sustainable Cities
A darkly funny travelogue through myth, archaeology, and the present tense of bad decisions. Prologue: Welcome aboard Time Machine...
Tonmay Saha
Sep 29, 20257 min read


Climate Anxiety: The Inuit Struggle to Stay Cool in a Warming Arctic
When we talk about climate anxiety—that gnawing dread that the Earth is slowly ghosting humanity—it’s not just eco-conscious Gen Z folks...
Andrea Dekrout
Sep 25, 20253 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 25, 20255 min read


A Book That Can Not Be Read Without Water
A global non-profit organisation, ‘Water For People’ has come up with a unique tool to help demonstrate the serious need for water: The...
Era Robbani
Sep 25, 20253 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 25, 20254 min read


Takeaways from the ICJ Verdict: How it Can Help Establish Natural Rights and Why It’s Relevant to Human Rights
On 23 July 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered a historic Advisory Opinion on the “Obligations of States in Respect...
Zainab Khan Roza
Sep 25, 20259 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 25, 20255 min read


ANGNIDE MAMUNG DONGJA REYANGBO
“Elephant rampage” or “elephant frenzy” is a phrase we hear all the time around here. To most of us, a wild elephant simply means a...
Syeda Anannya Faria
Sep 25, 20254 min read


Skyward Harvest: The Rise of Cloud Agriculture in a Dying World
Cloud Agriculture The sky was no longer blue. It had not been for decades. Sunlight used to illuminate an empty sky, but now people lived...
Tasin Abrar Nahin
Sep 25, 20256 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 25, 20256 min read


Somewhere Between: A Cloud Forest Tale of a Hummingbird, Tree Frog and Three-Toed Sloth
How you can believe something exists, even if you cannot see it with your own eyes Out in the universe somewhere between one starry...
Mark E.Silverstein
Sep 25, 202510 min read


Urban Sustainability and Disability
Sustainable city and person with disabilities are closely related to each other. Now the day’s world is changing day by day. Everyday...
Rabeya Ferdous
Sep 25, 20254 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 24, 20253 min read
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