Fungi are not mere pests but vital allies for soil health, sustainable agriculture, and ecosystem stability in Bangladesh.

Breast cancer awareness must go beyond symptoms to confront stigma, challenge gendered assumptions and improve access to diagnosis and care.

Artificial intelligence cannot resolve Bangladesh's garment productivity deficit unless factories first reform core management and operational capabilities.

Bangladesh’s growing reliance on pesticides raises questions about food safety, farmer health, and enforcement of existing regulations.

Addressing the ILO Article 26 complaint through meaningful labour reform is essential to protect Bangladeshi workers' rights.

Women’s empowerment in Bangladesh has expanded opportunities, but unequal domestic responsibilities continue to place a double burden on working mothers.

How our relationships with animals are evolving, challenging old ideas of kinship, companionship, ownership and the human-animal divide.

How does Cyclone Aila continue to shape migration from Gabura to India? New research explores the complex livelihood choices and unequal access to resources.

As Hilsa catches shrink and living costs rise, Bangladesh’s fishing families struggle with bans, debt and prices.

From Satyajit Ray to Coke Studio Bangla, how does mainstream Bengali culture portray indigenous communities? An analysis of agency, fantasy, and the gaze.

For Rohingya women, resistance takes many forms, from caregiving and education to work, advocacy and community action amid displacement.

One noisy banyan tree beside a Jamalpur canal turned into a lesson in ecology, revealing how figs, birds and a tiny wasp depend entirely on each other to survive.

Before Mariam died, she was mostly known as a powerful MP's second wife. This piece asks what marriage let the country stop asking and whether anyone, independently, ever checked if she was safe.

Dhaka keeps banning rickshaws, yet without safer buses or walkable streets, a ban only shifts the problem elsewhere.

Rescued, returned to abusers, and rescued again in 13 days, Samrat and Niharkoli expose Bangladesh's accountability gap.

The latest figures on violence against women raise a question that reaches beyond criminal law: when formal rights encounter social pressure, political influence or organised intimidation, who is usually expected to compromise?

Seventeen years after Cyclone Aila tore through Gabura, most families who survived it are still there. Drawing on nearly two decades of fieldwork, this piece asks why people stay when the land is disappearing, and what that means for Bangladesh's climate policy.

Bangladesh's climate crisis is usually pictured as floods and cyclones. But for millions of informal workers in Dhaka, the real threat is quieter: heat that follows them from their tin roofed homes to construction sites, garment factories and rickshaw seats, with nowhere left to escape it.

Drawing on years of work with families of the disappeared, this piece asks who can credibly investigate enforced disappearance in Bangladesh when the very institutions accused of carrying it out are the ones tasked with examining the allegations.

Thirteen years after his first visit, wildlife biologist Reza Khan returned to Adampur Reserved Forest in Moulvibazar as part of a survey to update Bangladesh's Faunal Red List. The gibbons still called from the canopy and the dwarf kingfishers still haunted the forest streams, but one quiet absence, the near disappearance of the forest's once abundant tree ferns, hinted at a slower, harder-to-notice kind of change.