A vast area of Bagerhat’s Rampal upazila is at risk of environmental degradation due to massive industrialisation surrounding the power plant.

A range of red hillocks -- it’s not only a great sight, surrounded by luscious Sal forests, but is also crucial in conserving the biodiversity of the midlands of Tangail and Gazipur.

Dhaka saw a marked improvement in air quality this morning.

Miscreants, allegedly under the patronage of forest department and local influentials, have been logging trees in the protected Lathitila forest in Moulvibazar’s Juri upazila.

The High Court yesterday imposed an injunction on dumping waste in Borshijora Eco Park of Moulvibazar for the next six months.

Although road construction inside the Lathitila protected forest was halted due to the forest officials’ intervention, works have resumed ignoring their concerns, allegedly following the environment minister’s order.

The High Court today imposed an injunction on dumping waste in Borshijora Eco Park of Moulvibazar for the next six months.

The High Court in a rule today stayed sand extraction in Chakaria upazila of Cox's Bazar for three months asking district administration to assess its environmental damage and realise the penalty from perpetrators.

People from ethnic minority communities living in Madhupur of Tangail demonstrated today protesting the Forest Department’s plan to excavate an artificial lake on croplands at Amtoly mouja for entertaining local and foreign tourists.

Bangladesh and Denmark today signed an agreement on Sustainable and Green Framework Engagement to strengthen the partnership on climate and green transition between the two countries.

The High Court today (April 24, 2022) cleared the way for the government to evict the illegal structures from four mouzas in the land of Ichamati River in Pabna.

Unbridled white clay extraction in Dhobaura upazila of Mymensingh district has put the ethnic community in danger as it devoured their homestead and way of livelihood, said the civil society platform Nagorik Uddog.

More than one hundred trees have already been cut down and several hundred more are in the process to embrace the same fate. It is the scenario of a portion of Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway.

United Nation's Environment Programme has named Sir David Attenborough this year’s Champion of the Earth.

After the scorching summer heat during the last several days, Dhaka finally saw a gush of much needed, though unexpected rain yesterday.

The High Court today (Wednesday) directed the Department of Environment (DoE) to immediately stop all activities of Saint Martin Resort, a tourism resort of Abakash Porjatan Ltd, at Saint Martin's Island, the only coral island of Bangladesh, as the resort has no environmental clearance certificate.

The High Court today asked the director general (DG) of Department of Environment (DoE) and deputy commissioners (DCs) of Dhaka and four other surrounding districts – Gazipur, Manikganj, Narayanganj and Munshiganj – to appear before it on May 17 and explain why illegal brick kilns were not shut down despite its repeated directives.

Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (Bela) yesterday served a legal notice on the government, demanding it to formulate a time-based action plan to free 54 rivers from pollution and to prosecute the polluters.

Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (Bela) today served a legal notice to the government, demanding it to formulate a time-based action plan in order to free 54 rivers across the country from pollution and to prosecute the polluters.

The road on the west of Dumuria’s Baliakhali bridge had to be crossed through the mighty Hamkura on ferries. The road is still there. The river, however, is not.