Climate change is severely affecting natural resources, including forests, wetlands, floodplains, hill ecosystems, and biodiversity.
As far as the eye can see, food stalls crowd every nook and corner, offering everything from “bhaja puras” to Chinese dishes. Tea vendors jostle for space alongside hawkers selling women’s ornaments at bargain prices.
The belief shared by corporate and government leaders that bigger is always better is founded on the false assumption
A group of primates wrestled with a plastic bag caught in the tangled roots of a mangrove tree. Their screeches echoed through the dense forest as they tore at the flimsy material, desperate for the scraps of food trapped inside.
High percentage of a harmful substance was found in the water near the country’s garment factories, according to a new study.
Each day of inaction translates to more lives lost
Ten years since Rana Plaza factory tragedy in Bangladesh, cheap clothing from global brands still filling landfill
Issues centring ecological protection are inherently political, but in this dying earth, these are repeatedly depoliticised.
Major cities, including metropolises like Dhaka and Chattogram, consistently rank among the world's least liveable urban areas.
The government has taken an initiative to set up four new vehicle inspection centres (VICs) to control emissions.
Only two decades ago, people bathed in the Hyderabad canal in Tongi, Gazipur.
Imagine for a moment our city without cars, but with high-quality public transport, people zipping by on bicycles, others on foot.
South Asia’s largest wetland ecosystem, the Hakaluki haor, is currently under threat as its fish population and aquatic plants is in decline due to illegal fishing.
Pollution caused over 2.15 lakh premature deaths in Bangladesh in 2019, according to a new global study.
Worsening outdoor air pollution and toxic lead poisoning have kept global deaths from environmental contamination at an estimated 9 million per year since 2015 – countering modest progress made in tackling pollution elsewhere, a team of scientists reported Tuesday.
Chattogram division is at high risk of being one of the world’s largest carbon catastrophes once all the fossil fuel power plants – planned to be constructed in the division – come into operation, according to a joint study.
Ward 53 of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) covers most parts of East Jurain’s Muradpur area. According to the 2011 census, more than 27,000 people live in this ward which, according to them, has become probably the worst place to live in Dhaka.
There will be traffic jams even at upazila level if Awami League remains in power for another five-year term, LGRD Minister Md Tajul Islam told the parliament today.
Bangabandhu’s Sonar Bangla, people’s Sonar Bangla, history’s Sonar Bangla will be a barren Sonar Bangla with its rivers polluted, grabbed and encroached upon and rendered lifeless. SAVE THEM TO SAVE US.