THE government efforts to work out and put in place rules to limit the loudness of sound in silent zones are a welcome move. The government is reported to be working on the Sound Pollution (Control) Rules 2025 after almost all its efforts in the past...
Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city of Bangladesh, has ranked 11th on the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI score of 95 at about 9:07am on Tuesday morning...
Under the influence of heavy rainfall in the early morning, Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city of Bangladesh, has ranked 61st on the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI score of 42 at about 9:25am on Monday morning...
Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city of Bangladesh, has ranked second on the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI score of 172 at about 10:00am on Sunday morning...
Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city of Bangladesh, has ranked 10th on the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI score of 114 at about 9:15 am on Saturday morning...
Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city of Bangladesh, has ranked 24th on the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI score of 75 at about 11:15am on Thursday morning...
Green activists and academics at a discussion on Wednesday urged the government to update the current noise pollution control law and strict enforcement to control the ever worsening impact of noise pollution on public health...
Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city of Bangladesh, has ranked 28th on the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI score of 68 at about 9:00am on Wednesday morning...
Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city of Bangladesh, has ranked 19th on the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI score of 81 at about 9:50am on Monday morning...
Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city of Bangladesh, has ranked 32th on the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI score of 62 at about 9:50am on Sunday morning...
Dhaka鈥檚 air quality continued to be in the 鈥榤oderate鈥� zone on Saturday morning...
Under the special initiative of the environment, forest and climate change ministry 3,797 cases were filed and Tk26,382,690 was realised as fine in drives against air, noise and polythene pollution this year across the country.
Local people of an area in Raiganj upazila in Sirajganj district on Wednesday protested at the operation of an auto rice mill, saying that its smoke and wastes were polluting the environment and farmland...
THE High Court鈥檚 recent directive to restore the River Dhaleshwari and hold encroachers and polluters accountable is a welcome step. The river is under severe threat from unchecked encroachment and industrial pollution. The High Court directed the National River Conservation Commission, the deputy commissioner of Dhaka and the Inland Water Transport Authority...
The River Dhaleshwari, once a lifeline for farming and fishing communities at Savar is now choking with the same pollution that had devastated the Buriganga before the relocation of tanneries from Hazaribagh.
The average Bangladeshi people could live 5.5 years longer if particulate pollution met the World Health Organisation guideline of 5 碌g/m, said a new report on Thursday...
Green activists and local people at a discussion on Wednesday blamed industries for polluting water, air and soil in Narayanganj and spreading pollution-related diseases...
Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city of Bangladesh, has ranked 18th on the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI score of 81 at 9:40am on Wednesday morning...
Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city of Bangladesh, has ranked fifth on the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI score of 129 at about 9:40am on Tuesday morning...
THE earliest few steps that the environment adviser to the interim took were about reducing plastic pollution, but the pollution continued unabated. A photograph that 抖阴精品 published on August 23 shows how the original channel of the River Buriganga is clogged with plastic wastes at Islambagh in Dhaka. Most of the city canals, meanwhile, lost their water flow because...
Dhaka鈥檚 air quality continued to be in the 鈥榤oderate鈥� zone on Saturday morning...
Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city of Bangladesh, has ranked 19th on the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI score of 75 at about 10:00am on Tuesday morning...
Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city of Bangladesh, has ranked 28th on the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI score of 66 at about 9:30am on Monday morning...
The government has declared the entire Savar upazila of Dhaka as a 鈥楧egraded Air Shed鈥� as the pollution in its air has reached a critical state...
Owners of a Singapore-registered vessel urged Colombo on Friday to consider more 鈥榬ational鈥� compensation after they were ordered to pay $1 billion in damages for causing Sri Lanka鈥檚 worst case of environmental pollution...
Talks aimed at striking a landmark global treaty on plastic pollution fell apart Friday as countries failed to find consensus on how the world should tackle the ever-growing scourge...
Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city of Bangladesh, has ranked 22nd on the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI score of 83 at 10:20am on Thursday...
The European Union is ready to do a deal to land a groundbreaking treaty on plastic pollution, but not at any cost, the EU鈥檚 environment commissioner insisted Tuesday.
Indigenous communities from North America are at talks on a global treaty on plastic pollution in Geneva, pleading the case for the environment they depend upon, which is slowly being choked by microplastics.
Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city of Bangladesh, has ranked 80th on the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI score of 47 at about 10:00am on Sunday morning...