Rafiqul Montu
@rafiqulmontu.bsky.social
Stories from the ground — Environment, Climate, Science, Coastal Communities, Public Health, Tech etc. Multi award winning independent investigative journalist & the pioneer of coastal journalism. 🇧🇩 Dhaka, Bangladesh. E-mail: rafiqulmontu@gmail.com
Can agency replace aid? After 50 years in the field, Bangladesh’s largest NGO has an answer by me in Alliance Mag www.alliancemagazine.org/interview/ca...
Can agency replace aid? After 50 years in the field, Bangladesh’s largest NGO has an answer - Alliance magazine
In Bangladesh, one out of every seven people are supported by BRAC, the largest Global South-based NGO. BRAC, previously an acronym for Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, has programmes that supp...
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Fighting Saltwater with Sunlight: How Solar Technology Is Tackling the Drinking Water Crisis in Southwest Bangladesh by me in @energypioneer.bsky.social theenergypioneer.com/fighting-sal...
Fighting Saltwater With Sunlight: How Solar Technology Is Tackling The Drinking Water Crisis In Southwest Bangladesh - The Energy Pioneer
When the waters of the Kholpetua River begin to rise, fear settles over Bhamia village. The advancing tide pushes salt water into the village’s canals and
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Fighting Saltwater with Sunlight: How Solar Technology Is Tackling the Drinking Water Crisis in Southwest Bangladesh by me in @energypioneer.bsky.social
The Energy Pioneer@energypioneer.bsky.social · 3w agoRead @rafiqulmontu.bsky.social article on solar powered water pumps with insights from Mohammad Mahmodul Hasan of @helvetas-ch.bsky.social Bangladesh, Obaydul Islam Sujan, of BONDHU, Atiq Rahman of BCAS. #SolarPowerPump #WaterCrisis #Renewables #Bangladesh theenergypioneer.com/fighting-sal...
Read @rafiqulmontu.bsky.social article on solar powered water pumps with insights from Mohammad Mahmodul Hasan of @helvetas-ch.bsky.social Bangladesh, Obaydul Islam Sujan, of BONDHU, Atiq Rahman of BCAS. #SolarPowerPump #WaterCrisis #Renewables #Bangladesh theenergypioneer.com/fighting-sal...
Fighting Saltwater With Sunlight: How Solar Technology Is Tackling The Drinking Water Crisis In Southwest Bangladesh - The Energy Pioneer
When the waters of the Kholpetua River begin to rise, fear settles over Bhamia village. The advancing tide pushes salt water into the village’s canals and
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“Prioritise us in the budget,” demand coastal communities en.prothomalo.com/environment/...
“Prioritise us in the budget,” demand coastal communities
Initiatives should be taken to develop the potential of the coast. The government can focus on the potential which can create employment.
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6 yrs of Cyclone Amphan --- “We’re defeated by natural disasters again and again. Cyclones reduce us to zero” en.prothomalo.com/environment/...
“We’re defeated by natural disasters again and again. Cyclones reduce us to zero”
Here are just a few cases of the many people who are in crisis after being affected by Super Cyclone Amphan. Super Cyclone Amphan hit the southwestern coast of Bangladesh during the COVID-19 pandemic....
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Living on the edge: How monsoon turns coastal life into survival --- by me in The Daily Star www.thedailystar.net/slow-reads/u...
Living on the edge: How monsoon turns coastal life into survival
Before the start of the disaster season, there is a rush of house changes along the coast. People on the banks of the Meghna River are busy repairing their houses.
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Andharmanik: the community newspaper driving climate action in remote villages itsfreezinginla.com/articles/com...
The Newspaper Driving Climate Action in Remote Villages | IFLA!
Andharmanik, a local newspaper in coastal Bangladesh, is galvanizing village residents to champion climate solutions. By Rafiqul Montu. Order Issue 12 Now.
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The story of Shobha Rani becoming the 'Lady of the Island' in the '91 cyclone ---- www.risingbd.com/risingbd-spe...
শোভা রানীর সাহসিকতা আমাদের পথ দেখায়
’৯১-এর প্রলয়ঙ্করী ঘূর্ণিঝড়ে বহু মানুষের প্রাণ বাঁচিয়ে ‘লেডি অব আইল্যান্ড’ উপাধি পেয়েছিলেন তিনি। এই শিরোনামে তার ওপর তৈরি করা প্রামাণ্যচিত্র দেখানো হয়েছিল বিশ্বের বিভিন্ন দেশে।
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On Bangladesh’s coastal island of Monpura, solar energy is reshaping everyday life and livelihoods. Read @rafiqulmontu.bsky.social article on Bangladesh's renewable energy struggle. theenergypioneer.com/a-solar-rich...
A Solar-Rich Country Still Waiting For Its Energy Shift: Bangladesh’s Renewable Struggle - The Energy Pioneer
On Bangladesh’s coastal island of Monpura, solar energy has already begun to transform daily life.
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A Solar-Rich Country Still Waiting for its Energy Shift: Bangladesh’s Renewable Struggle theenergypioneer.com/a-solar-rich...
A Solar-Rich Country Still Waiting For Its Energy Shift: Bangladesh’s Renewable Struggle - The Energy Pioneer
On Bangladesh’s coastal island of Monpura, solar energy has already begun to transform daily life.
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Forgotten on the coast: The Jaldas caught between two disasters by me in The Daily Star www.thedailystar.net/slow-reads/u...
Forgotten on the coast: The Jaldas caught between two disasters
A fishing village on the seashore. The village is repeatedly submerged by tidal waters. It rises again, and work resumes. But the people remain in crisis year after year.
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Preparing to survive Bangladesh is still among the countries most affected by the impacts of climate change, but Anticipatory Action has been helping some local communities limit the destruction wrought by natural calamities. adnchronicles.org/2026/02/28/p...
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Coastal journalism champion mentors future investigative journalists fojo.se/en/coastal-j...
Coastal journalism champion mentors future investigative journalists - Fojo Media Institute
For the past year, award-winning Bangladeshi journalist Rafiqul Islam Montu, who specialises in covering coastal communities, has been sharing his knowledge
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Climate Migration in Bangladesh: “We Don’t Know Where to Go Next...” www.readdecypher.com/climate-migr...
Climate Migration in Bangladesh: “We Don’t Know Where to Go Next...”
by Rafiqul Islam Montu
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Climate Migration in Bangladesh: “We Don’t Know Where to Go Next...” Story by me in Decypher, a interdisciplinary journal of Asia. www.readdecypher.com/climate-migr...
Climate Migration in Bangladesh: “We Don’t Know Where to Go Next...”
by Rafiqul Islam Montu
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Year in Review 2025: Coast of Bangladesh www.risingbd.com/risingbd-spe...
২০২৫: কেমন ছিল উপকূল?
ধাক্কাগুলো ক্রমশ বড় হচ্ছে। ক্ষয়ে যাচ্ছে তীরের মাটি, ডুবছে বাড়িঘর, মানুষ ছুটছে এক স্থান থেকে অন্য স্থানে। সদ্য ফেলে আসা বছরে ঘূর্ণিঝড় আঘাত না হানলেও বেশ কয়েকটি নিম্নচাপ এবং গভীর নিম্নচাপের প্রভাব উপকূল...
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Climate Crisis Disrupts Sundarbans Community Festival, Prosperity by me in @ipsnews.net www.ipsnews.net/2025/12/clim...
Climate Crisis Disrupts Sundarbans Community Festival, Prosperity
For two years, the Munda community in Bangladesh's Sundarbans had been fighting to save the Karam tree to celebrate their main festival.
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Climate Crisis Disrupts Sundarbans Community Festival, Prosperity by me in @ipsnews.net www.ipsnews.net/2025/12/clim...
Climate Crisis Disrupts Sundarbans Community Festival, Prosperity
For two years, the Munda community in Bangladesh's Sundarbans had been fighting to save the Karam tree to celebrate their main festival.
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The Committee expressed particular consternation that the EA had not told them about 3 landfill sites reported on by Sky News. 2/3 share.google/46lDHquOEgGn...
Officials accused of 'failing' to tell Lords about three large-scale illegal waste sites
Sky News has been investigating the scourge of waste crime all year, exposing how criminal gangs involved in drugs, weapons and people trafficking can make "millions" from illegally dumping waste.
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even if look past the errors of fact and poor reasoning throughout this piece, you are still left with a massive normative claim that isgur doesn’t even bother to support, which is that the purpose of the executive branch is to execute the president’s will and priorities.
Opinion | Actually, the Supreme Court Has a Plan
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BAM! "The Earth, of course, is indifferent to what’s politically possible. The planet has seen entire living worlds wiped away by warming many times before, and there’s no reason to think it’s sentimental about organized industrial society." www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
Our Almost-Apocalyptic Climate Future
By shooting for 3 degrees Celsius of warming, the world could slide toward a more cataclysmic 4 degrees.
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Tides affect the lives of all people. Some people's lives are disrupted by the impact of tides. They are displaced and have to change homes frequently. Rising sea levels are putting people on the margins at risk. We want to go deeper into the story of tides. Let's move forward.
On October 2, 2025, the University of Arizona organized a webinar on climate change and human rights for its students. I was fortunate to be a speaker at this webinar. I gave a presentation on climate change and human rights in the context of the coast of #Bangladesh.
Coastal women in Bangladesh are on the front lines of the impacts of climate change. Rising sea levels are making their livelihoods even harder.
Panel discussion on ‘New Trends in Journalism: Creative Approaches’, part of the 10th Annual Conference of Communication and Journalism Educators Network (CJEN), Bangladesh, organized by DW Akademie and SACMID. I participated as a panelist
Panel discussion on ‘New Trends in Journalism: Creative Approaches’, part of the 10th Annual Conference of Communication and Journalism Educators Network (CJEN), Bangladesh, organized by DW Akademie and SACMID. I participated as a panelist
Coastal women in Bangladesh are on the front lines of the impacts of climate change. Rising sea levels are making their livelihoods even harder.
