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June 26, 2025

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Garbage piles up in Mirpur, stinking up the area
Garbage piles up in Mirpur, stinking up the area

Pedestrians have held their noses on the way from Mazar Road to the embankment in Dhaka's Mirpur for a long time. The wide road has turned into a garbage dump for the fruit warehouse in the area. Not only has the waste narrowed the road, it also emits a foul stench that clogs the air. Though a waste disposal site for the city corporation is nearby, the warehouse owners just dump their garbage on the road.
Protesting workers block advisors' convoy in Jaflong
Protesting workers block advisors' convoy in Jaflong

A video circulating on social media shows workers surrounding the vehicles of advisors Syeda Rizwana Hasan and Fouzul Kabir Khan
A plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours
A plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours

Scientists worldwide are racing to develop innovative solutions to the growing plastic waste crisis as plastic pollution is set to triple by 2040
Form 'three zeros clubs' to save the planet: Yunus
Form 'three zeros clubs' to save the planet: Yunus

The chief advisor urges students to harness their imagination to help transform the world
Amazon fires drive unprecedented global forest loss in 2024: report
Amazon fires drive unprecedented global forest loss in 2024: report

Loss of tropical pristine forests alone reaches 6.7 million hectares, an 80 percent spike compared to 2023
‘Overseas students can fulfil Germany’s need for green professionals’
‘Overseas students can fulfil Germany’s need for green professionals’

The European company may face a deficit of 560,000 workers across 250 professions essential to its targets of climate neutrality and net-negative emissions, the information portal says
US’s Kennedy targets 'environmental toxins' as cause of autism
US’s Kennedy targets 'environmental toxins' as cause of autism

Kennedy repeatedly contradicted both developing and established science on autism in his first press conference since becoming Secretary of Health and Human Services
Unfit trucks spew black smoke on highways
Unfit trucks spew black smoke on highways

It is unclear which trucks plying Bangladesh’s highways would pass a fitness test. Truck drivers and owners say that those vehicles on the roads are fit, but many can be seen regularly spewing black smoke.
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