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Feature Stories

Conserving & restoring waterways can mitigate extreme urban heat in Bangladesh

By Riley Comstock Feature Stories This story first ran in Mongabay, an online news site dedicated to global environmental coverage. DHAKA — In pre-monsoon the heat of May, five teenage boys used a rope with knots in it to scale a wall and enter the national botanical gardens in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. They dropped down next to a big pond surrounded by foliage encircled … Continue reading Conserving & restoring waterways can mitigate extreme urban heat in Bangladesh

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Reportage

Foreign aid and NGOs in Bangladesh

The nepa palm home of Shobita, Bina, and Mohon Mondol home sits on a narrow strip of compressed silt near the confluence of a canal and the Pashur river in the delta of Bangladesh. They dip drinking water from a 2,000-liter rainwater collection tank the received last year from with help of the local welfare center. The tank saves the Mondols from having to make … Continue reading Foreign aid and NGOs in Bangladesh

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Travelogue

Feeling it like it is

In preparing for this trip to Dhaka, our professor Nadia White told us all to “tell it like it is.” We would not be sugarcoating anything, or glazing over the important details. Our reporting would be focused on climate change, specifically related to loss and damages. We were asked to research and prepare to report on a related issue in Bangladesh, where we would “tell … Continue reading Feeling it like it is

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