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Rafiqul Montu 🇧🇩

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Stories from the ground — Environment, Climate, Coastal, Science, etc. Multi award winning independent investigative journalist. E-mail: [email protected]

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Western societies cannot do without migrants: Amitav Ghosh Amitav Ghosh was interviewed by @ Rajat Ghai of Down To Earth about his new book Wild Fictions. From this interview, we get to know the author's thoughts on the book. downtoearth.org.in/environment/we…

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Megadroughts are on the rise worldwide One of the most extreme megadroughts has helped fuel California’s wildfires by Carolyn Gramling in Science News sciencenews.org/article/extrem…

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The story of the lost forest of the seashore. The sea is becoming increasingly agitated. The sea is swallowing villages, houses, infrastructure. Biodiversity is under threat. The people of the seashore are moving back. They are looking for a place to live elsewhere.

The story of the lost forest of the seashore. The sea is becoming increasingly agitated. The sea is swallowing villages, houses, infrastructure. Biodiversity is under threat. The people of the seashore are moving back. They are looking for a place to live elsewhere.
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Through small-scale initiatives, women in climate-vulnerable families in coastal Bangladesh are making a living. For this, women have to struggle a lot, they have to face many risks. Many women have to carry the burden of the entire family with the risks. Stories remain hidden.

Through small-scale initiatives, women in climate-vulnerable families in coastal Bangladesh are making a living. For this, women have to struggle a lot, they have to face many risks. Many women have to carry the burden of the entire family with the risks. Stories remain hidden.
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Tobacco cultivation and elephant death trap -- On February 12, the Forest Department recovered a dead elephant from a tobacco field on the side of a hill in Chakaria, Bangladesh. Local residents said that the elephant died in an electric trap set to protect the tobacco field.

Tobacco cultivation and 
elephant death trap
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On February 12, the Forest Department recovered a dead elephant from a tobacco field on the side of a hill in Chakaria, Bangladesh. Local residents said that the elephant died in an electric trap set to protect the tobacco field.
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With climate change-induced hazards aggravating, preparations underway for India’s first National Adaptation Plan The final plan is expected to be out by end of this year by Nidhi Jamwal in Down To Earth downtoearth.org.in/climate-change…

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Handwritten newspaper brings hope to remote Bangladesh village Bangladesh’s own special correspondent handwrites paper to share local news by Taz Ali in The i Paper inews.co.uk/news/world/han…

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Without the means to type his stories on a computer and to keep costs low, Mr Parvez handwrites the stories he gathers to publish in his bi-monthly, four-page newspaper called Andharmanik. One of Mr Parvez’s biggest stories was that of a young girl called Rubina,

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🌿 Forests as Fortresses. No cement. No funding. Just resilience. Bangladeshi women are building living mangrove walls to hold back rising seas and save entire villages. IPS reportage by Rafiqul Montu 🇧🇩🔗 tinyurl.com/yadpuwjh

🌿 Forests as Fortresses.

No cement. No funding. Just resilience.
Bangladeshi women are building living mangrove walls to hold back rising seas and save entire villages.

IPS reportage by <a href="/ri_montu/">Rafiqul Montu 🇧🇩</a>🔗 tinyurl.com/yadpuwjh
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🌊 Bangladesh is drowning in plastic — not just its own. Every day, over 15,000 tonnes of single-use plastic flow into Bangladesh’s rivers from upstream countries like India, Myanmar, and Nepal. The Bay of Bengal is now a dumping ground, set to receive 5x more plastic by 2025

🌊 Bangladesh is drowning in plastic — not just its own.

Every day, over 15,000 tonnes of single-use plastic flow into Bangladesh’s rivers from upstream countries like India, Myanmar, and Nepal. The Bay of Bengal is now a dumping ground, set to receive 5x more plastic by 2025