Samira Basher Roza

- The Quiet Destruction of the Black Sea’s Marine Life by Russia Ukraine War The Black Sea has always been a place of paradox. To the ancient Greeks it was the Pontos Euxeinos which means the “hospitable sea," a legendary highway for the Argonauts chasing the Golden Fleece. Yet beneath its glittering surface lies a prehistoric horror: nearly 90 percent of its volume is anoxic, a vast, oxygen-starved abyss filled with poisonous hydrogen sulphide (H₂S) that has perfectly preserved shipwrecks...

When the UN decided to hold COP30 in Belém, it quietly changed the geometry of climate diplomacy. For the first time, negotiators gathered not in a distant capital but at the mouth of the Amazon itself, arguing over finance and emission targets while surrounded by the rainforest they were promising to protect (Reuters, 2025a). In the official narrative, it quickly became a “forest COP”: a summit defined by the launch of a vast new fund for tropical forests, fresh pledges for Indigenous land...

The night was heavy, the kind of darkness where even the stars seemed afraid to shine. In a small riverside village of Sirajganj, Aisha Begum lay awake, her three children curled beside her on a straw mat, their soft breaths rising and falling in fragile rhythm. The Jamuna River, usually a distant hum, had turned into a living beast. It growled in the blackness, its waves thrashing like restless arms, clawing closer with every surge. The air smelled of wet earth and silt, thick with the...