Ports asked to hoist signal 1

The only giraffe at Gazipur Safari Park has died while undergoing treatment for tuberculosis (TB). The adult female giraffe, brought from South Africa, passed away on Thursday afternoon, but the news was made public yesterday.

Adult female African giraffe had been ill for a week

A pink sea fan, or pink gorgonian coral, sways gently in the Bay of Bengal off Saint Martin’s Island -- a living lacework of colour and resilience.

Students pledge to protect nature

Over 271,000 people in Bangladesh died from air pollution-related causes in 2023, according to a new global report.

With the dry season approaching, Dhaka city’s air quality has once again slipped to an unhealthy level, underscoring the inadequacy of the limited measures taken by the authorities to curb air pollution.

Demand relocation of the facility

Water Development Board in Kurigram took steps to evict the grabber after The Daily Star published a report on the canal's encroachment on October 16

Experts urge awareness as rediscovered predator faces survival threats

Bangladesh’s hard-won economic resilience is being tested as the twin pressures of climate change and mounting external debt converge to threaten its financial stability.

A low-pressure area is likely to form over the southeast Bay of Bengal and adjoining area around October 24, according to the Bangladesh Meteorological Department.

Day and night temperatures may remain nearly unchanged over the country

Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) Mayor Shahadat Hossain yesterday urged port city residents to abstain from using single-use plastics, saying that a sustainable solution to the city’s waterlogging problem lies in eliminating polythene.

In Bangladesh alone, over 19,000 children under five died in 2021 due to air pollution

Marked the biggest one-year increrase since record keeping started in 1957

Bangladesh becomes first Asian nation to embed ‘Just Transition’ in climate pledge

Torrential rains battered several Mexican states over several days last week

When we treat animal welfare as a beat, not a spectacle, we’ll be humane, not just human

Gusty winds and thunder showers expected in Chattogram and Sylhet