Tahmid Zami

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It is day 137 of a round-the-clock sit-in to save Dhaka’s Panthakunja Park – aka “the pedestrians'‘ oasis”. Hundreds of trees have already gone and more are under threat due to plans for an elevated expressway across the Bangladeshi capital. Green spaces in the city have shrunk from 17% in 1989 to 2% in 2020, driven by Dhaka’s rapid urbanisation, yet temperatures are on the rise – making shade a priority.

1 month ago | context.news | Tahmid Zami

Amirul Rajiv and Naim Ul Hasan, two coordinators of Bangladesh Tree Protection Movement, pose before the makeshift tent where they have been staging a sit-in for more than four months, Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 26, 2025. Md. Tahmid Zami/ Thomson Reuters FoundationWhat’s the context? In the fast-growing Bangladesh capital, sun-scorched activists demand protection for city's last green oases.

1 month ago | usnews.com | Tahmid Zami

By Md. Tahmid ZamiNARAYANGANJ, Bangladesh (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Bangladesh's limited capacity to deal with the enormous waste generated by its textile sector may prove unsustainable as the global fashion industry faces pressure to reduce its environmental footprint. Bangladesh, the world's second-largest apparel producer, only recycles a small percentage of its textile waste, with the rest shipped abroad or left to pollute the landscape.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Tahmid Zami

By Md. Tahmid ZamiNARAYANGANJ, Bangladesh (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Bangladesh's limited capacity to deal with the enormous waste generated by its textile sector may prove unsustainable as the global fashion industry faces pressure to reduce its environmental footprint. Bangladesh, the world's second-largest apparel producer, only recycles a small percentage of its textile waste, with the rest shipped abroad or left to pollute the landscape.

1 month ago | context.news | Tahmid Zami

What’s the context? The world's fashion industry is producing an increasingly unmanageable amount of wasteDHAKA - The world's fashion industry not only emits a large amount of carbon dioxide emissions but also produces an increasingly unmanageable heap of textile waste. Waste textile fibres, scraps and cutout parts - amounting to more than 92 million tonnes a year - pose a global challenge as textile production has doubled in the last two decades.