In the 1980s, as a young geologist in Louisiana, I watched as a delta died. Louisiana’s coast loses a football field’s worth of of wetlands every 100 minutes. Since the 1930s, the state has lost more than 2,000 square miles of land. The cause has been well-documented for decades: the Mississippi was leveed and channelled … Read more…
India’s experience with Farakka shows that this barrage has created such severe problems for the upstream and downstream areas there that it has now become a noose. Dr. Nazrul Islam and Dr. Md. Khalequzzaman write on whether the same could happen in the case of Bangladesh. 10 questions about the Ganges Barrage On August 22, … Read more…
The fourth Sunday of September every year marks the World Rivers Day. People around the world celebrate rivers and recognize their ecological and economic importance (Sayuj, 2026). However, in Bangladesh the day highlights environmental crisis. Rivers are central to this country’s identity, economy and survival yet many of them are dying. A fisherman on the … Read more…
