Department of Environment (DoE)

Curbing air pollution should be our top priority

It poses the greatest environmental threat to human health

Sylhet is losing its storied hillocks, one after another

Authorities must take stern action against the culprits

Dhaka’s forever toxic air

Do the authorities have any plan at all to contain air pollution?

Failed response to dengue and air pollution is no coincidence

High Court’s observations about the relevant authorities demand attention

Air pollution is not for only one authority to tackle

Md Ziaul Haque, the director of Air Quality Management at the Department of Environment, talks with Naznin Tithi of The Daily Star about the factors behind severe air pollution in the country and why concerted efforts are needed from all ministries and government agencies concerned to fight it.

Stop encroachment of Arial Beel

Authorities must act on High Court’s directive to save the endangered wetland

Save Arial Beel from real estate sharks

Encroachers are destroying the once-thriving ecosystem of this wetland

Can a state institution just gobble up land?

BADC must stop filling the water retention area in Gabtoli

The crumbling coasts

Illegal sand mining is eating away people's homes, farmland and wildlife habitats

March 21, 2024
March 21, 2024

Curbing air pollution should be our top priority

It poses the greatest environmental threat to human health

March 13, 2024
March 13, 2024

Sylhet is losing its storied hillocks, one after another

Authorities must take stern action against the culprits

December 29, 2023
December 29, 2023

Dhaka’s forever toxic air

Do the authorities have any plan at all to contain air pollution?

November 29, 2023
November 29, 2023

Failed response to dengue and air pollution is no coincidence

High Court’s observations about the relevant authorities demand attention

September 17, 2023
September 17, 2023

Air pollution is not for only one authority to tackle

Md Ziaul Haque, the director of Air Quality Management at the Department of Environment, talks with Naznin Tithi of The Daily Star about the factors behind severe air pollution in the country and why concerted efforts are needed from all ministries and government agencies concerned to fight it.

August 17, 2023
August 17, 2023

Stop encroachment of Arial Beel

Authorities must act on High Court’s directive to save the endangered wetland

July 22, 2023
July 22, 2023

Save Arial Beel from real estate sharks

Encroachers are destroying the once-thriving ecosystem of this wetland

April 26, 2023
April 26, 2023

Can a state institution just gobble up land?

BADC must stop filling the water retention area in Gabtoli

March 24, 2023
March 24, 2023

The crumbling coasts

Illegal sand mining is eating away people's homes, farmland and wildlife habitats

March 22, 2023
March 22, 2023

The politics and pollution of our rivers

Because the control of water and natural resources is no longer in the hands of the people, their use is eventually meant to benefit a particular class.

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