Prakrity

Off the Greek island of Alonissos in the eastern Aegean Sea, volunteer divers grab decaying plastic bottles, a tyre and a rusted anchor chain from the seabed and place them in a trash bag as part of an EU-funded cleanup to protect marine life. The items recovered off Alonissos – a favourite tourist spot for […]

Researchers in Japan have developed a plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours, offering up a potential solution for a modern-day scourge polluting oceans and harming wildlife. While scientists have long experimented with biodegradable plastics, researchers from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science and the University of Tokyo say their new material breaks down […]

The government has banned the plantation, collection and sale of eucalyptus and akashmoni saplings aiming to protect environment, ecosystem and biodiversity in the country. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change today issued an official notification to this end. According to the notification, in line with national and international commitments, all government and non-government […]

Clean air is not a luxury, it is a constitutional right—this powerful message resonated from a high-level policy breakfast held this morning at the Bangladesh Institute of Planners (BIP) Conference Hall. The event, titled “Revisiting Energy Policy to Ensure Clean Air,” was jointly organized by the Center for Atmospheric Pollution Studies (CAPS), BIP, and the […]

Despite rapid urbanization and rising concrete structures, Dhaka still retains around 1.3 million trees, according to the first-ever comprehensive tree census jointly conducted by the Bangladesh Forest Department and the U.S. Forest Service. The study, titled Urban Tree Inventory of Dhaka City, provides vital data on the density, species, distribution, and ecosystem benefits of trees […]