The program aimed to raise mass awareness about reducing single-use plastics (SUP) and promote the use of reusable and recyclable materials.

Plight of the Karatoya highlights the pitiful state of our rivers

Government must push through vital measures for results

Illegal encroachers are devouring Bangladesh's precious natural resources

Razing of hills in Bandarban and elsewhere must stop

One by one, our rivers are being killed

Government offices must overcome their inadequacies to play a bigger role

Saga of three rivers a reminder of how catastrophically mismanaged our rivers are

State minister’s words must be followed by proper action

Government must take urgent steps to reduce plastic pollution

A local company is set to export solid waste generated at the Savar Tannery Industrial Estate (STIE), a move that could show the way for curbing the dumping of polluting materials in open yards and cutting the scope for environmental pollution.

Dhaka losing its greenery is the tip of a colossal iceberg

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal proposed to withdraw the existing 5 percent supplementary duty on all types of polythene bags, plastic bags (including oven plastic bags) and wrapping materials made of polyethylene.

Toxic smoke from brick kilns is damaging crops and public health

Dhaka is the world’s noisiest city, according to a latest report of the United Nations Environment Programme.

Selim Uddin, 50, had been a farmer all his life like his father and his father before him. Until a few years ago, he earned his living by farming on a small piece of land and fishing in canals in and around his South Madrasa union in Chittagong's Hathazari upazila.

A quarter of all premature deaths and diseases worldwide are due to environmental pollution and climate change, says a landmark report of the United Nations.

A recent World Bank report—an environmental analysis of Bangladesh—should erase any remaining doubts about the critical level that environmental pollution has reached in the country.

Nine people are killed when police opened fire on protesters demanding the closure of a copper smelting plant over environmental pollution concern in a port city in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu today.

Bangladesh is the second worst country in curbing environmental pollution, an Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranking report says.