Pinaki Roy

With the dry season approaching, Dhaka city’s air quality has once again slipped to an unhealthy level, underscoring the inadequacy of the limited measures taken by the authorities to curb air pollution.

Bangladesh’s eastern coast, a key zone for development activities, is sinking faster than the central and western coasts amid rising sea levels, posing threats to infrastructure, vast swathes of farmland and the livelihoods of millions of people, warns a new study.

Even at the peak of monsoon, the Buriganga water remains almost pitch-dark at Doleshwar point in Dhaka’s Shyampur area.

Freshwater, both surface and groundwater, from northern Bangladesh has been declining steadily for the past two decades, reveals a new global study.

This year, fishermen have been returning with lesser catches and bigger losses.

The Ecnec yesterday approved the construction of Rabindra University in Sirajganj, despite objections from several advisers over the plan to build it by filling up a wetland.

Environment Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan’s admission of failure to stop rampant stone extraction in Sylhet’s Jaflong may be honest, but it highlights her glaring limitations as an administrator.

Bangladesh experienced three low-pressure systems on July 7, July 14 and July 24 which led to heavy rain