The villages around Amin Bazar, once known for their lush green farmlands and fresh air, now stand as stark reminders of unchecked pollution, with locals facing serious health risks from a nearby landfill.
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.
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.
Bits of plastic is detected in the faeces of people in Europe, Russia and Japan, according to research claiming to show for the first time the widespread presence of plastics in the human food chain.
We do not need studies to tell us that indiscriminate, unplanned urbanisation, along with encroachment of land and water bodies, have polluted the air and water making our urban areas, unlivable.
Pollution claimed the lives of nine million people in 2015, one in every six deaths that year, according to a report published yesterday.
Pollution from illegal marijuana farms deep in California's national forests is far worse than previously thought, and has turned thousands of acres into waste dumps so toxic that simply touching plants has landed law enforcement officers in the hospital.
FIFA could pull Under-17 World Cup matches out of New Delhi because of concerns over air quality in the world's most polluted capital city, the tournament director said.
Olympic medalists are traditionally presented flower bouquets as they are awarded up gold, silver or bronze medals on a podium. But this is not happening in the Rio 2016 Olympics in Brazil.
The High Court directed the industries secretary to submit before it by June 13 the list of names of the businessmen who are still running their tanneries at Hazaribagh in Dhaka.
Carrom board is the second most common thing in Bangladesh for a Bangladeshi after the crow, and also second behind the rickshaw for a foreigner and definitely second after the dirt, grime and pollution for a non-residential Bangladeshi (NRB) just arrived…Ufff, ki gondho (What the stench is this?)
Environmentalists form a 71-km-long human chain on the banks of the Turag River demanding an end to pollution and grabbing of the river.
