Diesel tank leak: Cropland at risk of being polluted in Sitakunda

More than one acre of farmland is likely to be affected and crops are being feared damaged after three thousand liters of diesel oil spilled from a tank of CP Bangladesh Co Ltd in Teriail Bazar area of Sitakunda upazila in Chattogram early this morning (September 21, 2022).
21 September 2022, 15:41 PM

230 whales stranded on Tasmanian beach

About 230 whales have been stranded on Tasmania’s west coast, just days after 14 sperm whales were found beached on an island off the southeastern coast.
21 September 2022, 09:41 AM

How to kill a canal

Do you know how much garbage it takes to kill a 13-kilometre-long flowing canal?
15 September 2022, 18:00 PM

No earth filling on 2,500 bighas of agri land, waterbodies in Rupganj: HC

The High Court today (August 28, 2022) directed the government to stop -- for the next three months – the earth filling on around 2,500 bighas of agricultural land and waterbodies near Purbachal of Daudpur Union in Naryanganj's Rupganj.
28 August 2022, 07:08 AM

Hill razing in Cox's Bazar: Environment secy, DC, SP face contempt of court rule

Nine government officials, including the secretary of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, the deputy commissioner of Cox's Bazar, and the superintendent of police, have been charged with contempt of court for failing to follow the High Court's 2012 orders to stop hill razing in the district.
24 August 2022, 16:48 PM

Unravelling the mysteries of the cosmos

Unravelling the mysteries of the cosmos
19 August 2022, 18:00 PM

Tidal surges likely to inundate many parts of coastal districts 

Low-lying areas of 15 coastal districts in Bangladesh, including their offshore islands and chars, are likely to be inundated by tidal surges, the weather department said on Friday.
19 August 2022, 07:24 AM

Port city lost 120 hills in 4 decades

A total of 120 hills disappeared from Chattogram city in four decades, Bangladesh Environment Forum, an environmental organisation, claimed yesterday.
13 August 2022, 18:00 PM

Chattogram city lost 120 hills in 4 decades, activists claim

A total of 120 hills disappeared from Chattogram city in four decades, Bangladesh Environment Forum, an environmental organisation, claimed today (August 13, 2022).
13 August 2022, 10:51 AM

Hills lost to greed

Many hilly areas in Tangail’s Ghatail upazila have been flattened due to rampant cutting of red clay hillocks by soil traders allegedly supported by local influential people.
10 August 2022, 18:00 PM

Razing hills: CCC councillor, wife among 3 sued in Ctg

The Department of Environment (DoE) has sued three persons including a ward councillor of Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) for cutting hills.
10 August 2022, 15:30 PM

Local admin issues 12 conditions for tourist boats on Tanguar Haor

The local administration of Sunamganj’s Tahirpur upazila has issued 12 conditions for tourist boats making trips to the Tanguar Haor.
4 August 2022, 13:16 PM

Biodiversity of Cox’s Bazar under threat

A parliamentary body yesterday said the environment and biodiversity of Cox’s Bazar are at serious risk due to the dumping of poisonous substances from the shrimp hatcheries into the sea.
31 July 2022, 18:00 PM

Dhaka losing its greenery

Dhaka has lost around 56 percent of its green spaces over the last three decades. In 1989, this mega city had 12,745 hectares of vegetation, which came down to just 5,599 hectares in 2020, a new study has found.
23 July 2022, 02:30 AM

Japanese regulators okay releasing waste water from Fukushima nuclear plant to ocean

Japan's nuclear regulators have approved a plan to release into the ocean water from the wrecked Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, the government said on Friday.
22 July 2022, 16:46 PM

Green activists, civil society members urge govt to cancel forestland reserved for BFF training centre

Green activists, environmental rights organisations and civil society members urged the government to cancel the forestland allotted to Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) in Cox’s Bazar’s Khuniyapalong reserve forest.
20 July 2022, 16:09 PM

Low lying areas of port city waterlogged after receiving 153mm rain

Many low-lying areas of Chattogram city were submerged in knee-deep water owing to rain, causing immense distress to commuters and residents today (July 20, 2022).
20 July 2022, 12:21 PM

Nijhum Dwip submerged in “high tide”, deer being washed away

Nijhum Dwip union and national park of Noakhali’s Hatiya Upazila have been submerged due to rising water from an “unusually high tide” in Meghna.
18 July 2022, 07:53 AM

Robot fish that "eat" microplastics developed by Chinese scientists

Robot fish that "eat" microplastics may one day help to clean up the world's polluted oceans, says a team of Chinese scientists from Sichuan University in southwest China.
12 July 2022, 12:38 PM

Microplastics are everywhere, in oceans, air and the human body

From ocean depths to mountain peaks, humans have littered the planet with tiny shards of plastic. We have even absorbed these microplastics into our bodies -- with uncertain implications.
3 July 2022, 04:21 AM