Environmental degradation and climate change impacts create externalities that can be reduced through appropriate pricing mechanisms.

We must be careful and address underlying reasons behind it

The recently enacted Air Pollution Control Rules-2022 has been adopted to protect the interest of the businesses that are responsible for polluting the country’s environment, speakers told a seminar yesterday.

Government must take action locally and with regional partners to improve air quality

Air pollution is responsible for about 20 percent of the total premature deaths in Bangladesh, says a World Bank report.

What exactly is the government doing to improve air quality?

India's Delhi and China's Beijing occupied the second and third spots on the list, with AQI scores of 221 and 187

Dhaka has topped the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI index of 239 at 08:55am today..The air was classified as 'very unhealthy'.

The High Court today wanted to know what steps were being taken to curb air pollution in Dhaka, as the capital has been at or near the top of most polluted cities in the world for the last one week.

Government must save residents of Dhaka, other cities from massive pollution

Dhaka ranked second in the list of world cities with the worst air quality as it registered an air quality index (AQI) score of 234 at 9:05am today, which puts the capital in the "very unhealthy" category

It seems grossly inappropriate that in a country on its way to achieving middle-income status, there are still people dying from poverty.

Dhaka has once again topped the list of world cities with the worst air quality.

Four South Asian countries -- Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan -- have agreed to drastically bring down the annual average of particulate matter (PM) 2.5 in the countries’ air to 35 microgrammes per cubic metre by 2030.

Air pollution is killing around 80,000 people every year in Bangladesh by causing respiratory problems as well as depression, and wiping out around 4 percent of the country’s GDP, said a World Bank report yesterday.

The Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) industrial estate in Dinajpur is causing untold sufferings for people living and working in the area as the rice mills present are pouring copious amounts of ash and other pollutants into the environment.

We need visionary leaders to deal with the impending climate catastrophe.

More than 22,000 people in the capital died due to air pollution in 2019, says a global report.

Dhaka's air quality turned “moderate” this morning (August 10, 2022).

Dhaka has been ranked as the fourth most polluted city in the world.