Bangladesh has sought US' technical cooperation in preserving the Sundarbans, the last of South Asia’s mangrove forest, and for management of water resources.

Department of Environment (DoE) Chattogram region fined GPH Oxygen Plant and Standard Lube Oil Limited Tk 5.8 lakh for violating the environment conservation act and polluting environment.

A strategic environmental assessment is being carried out for the south-western part of the country as part of the government's commitment to conservation of the Sundarbans, Environment, Forests and Climate Change Minister Md Shahab Uddin said.

A mobile court of Department of Environment (DoE) today fined four brick kilns Tk 20 lakh for environment pollution in Kaliganj upazila of Gazipur.

Around 65 Mro families of three villages in Bandarban’s Lama upazila are living in fear of eviction from their ancestral homes with no source of livelihood after land grabbers illegally occupied their jhum land last month.

Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) has evicted 51 illegal establishments from the bank of Buriganga river in Dhaka's Swari Ghat and Mitford Balur Ghat areas today.

Department of Environment (DoE) Chattogram metro fined eight businesses including KDS Textile and Heidelberg Cement at least Tk 4.25 lakh for polluting environment.

The Supreme Court today cleared the way for the government to shut down all illegal brick kilns, operating without a valid license, in Chattogram's Lohagara upazila.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has upheld--until further orders--a High Court directive that asked the government to shut down all illegal brick kilns with no valid license in Chattogram.

Department of Environment (DoE) Chattogram today shut down a dyeing factory for polluting Beerja canal by releasing untreated substance into it.

Expressing serious concern over the current levels of air pollution in Dhaka, the High Court today issued three new directives on the authorities concerned to keep this pollution in check.

A senior engineer of the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED), a construction firm and a sub-contractor were fined Tk 7 lakh by the Department of Environment (DoE) today, for razing hills in Bandarban’s Lama upazila.

A mobile court of the Department of Environment (DoE) in Rangpur has demolished seven illegal brick kilns in two upazilas of Rangpur.

Department of Environment (DoE) today fined Feni University Tk 5 lakh for encroaching upon a century-old waterbody at Feni Sadar upazila.

Bangladesh Environment Lawyers Association (BELA) and Cox's Bazar based environment organisation Youth Environment Society (YES) served a legal notice upon six government bodies including Land Ministry, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and Roads and Highways (RHD) over filling up of Kohelia River in Cox's Bazar.

Department of Environment (DoE) in Chattogram region has fined Power Development Board (PDB) in Brahmanbaria’s Ashuganj Tk 5 lakh for filling up two large ponds to facilitate construction of a residential block.

The government has undertaken a project involving the general people to reduce noise pollution to a tolerable level, Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Md Shahab Uddin said.

People affected by erosion in Roumari and Char Rajibpur upazilas of Kurigram besieged the deputy commissioner's office today demanding implementation of the four-point measure to prevent river erosion.

Of the 62 rivers in Barishal division, one-fourth have lost navigability forcing water vessel owners to suspend operations in and around 460km of 27 waterways.

A mobile court of the Department of Environment (DoE) today demolished four illegal brick kilns and fined another Tk five lakh in Faridpur.