We live in a world where approximately 9.2 percent of the global population lives on less than $2.15 per day according to figures from 2019.
The coal bed of Bangladesh differs from that of many other places in the world, where the water table is found usually below the coal bed, not above as in Bangladesh.
New study reveals harrowing level of microplastic pollution in rivers
In ensuring amenities, the authorities must not destroy nature
Government must take stern action against those lifting sand from Jamuna, Meghna
Government must not allow anyone to occupy or destroy forestland
Worrying reports about natural degradation question the government’s sincerity
Authorities must protect our existing natural resources before taking any reforesting measure
Chattogram district administration must answer for felling 5,000 trees
Government must protect our rivers from being polluted, encroached or harmed in other ways
Environmental degradation and climate change impacts create externalities that can be reduced through appropriate pricing mechanisms.
A tea company is digging a lake in the middle of a reserve forest in Fatikchhari, Chattogram, in what environmentalists say is a crime that’s causing irreparable damage to the environment.
By killing our rivers, we only hasten our downfall
The COVID-19 pandemic hit us at a time when anthropogenic climate change is threatening to destabilise our lives.
It has been nearly a year since the latest influx of the Rohingya people after they were forcibly driven out of Myanmar and into Bangladesh. Since last August, over 700,000 refugees, mostly women and children, have been housed, fed, clothed and provided with medical attention by a combination of Bangladesh's military and civilian authorities and NGOs as well as the UN and other international agencies, of whom there are over a hundred working day and night in the Rohingya camps.
We observed yet another World Environment Day, and perhaps it is time to seriously evaluate if our actions on the ground match our grand pledges, in summits and seminars, to protect the country from the threat of climate change and further environmental degradation.
