The government has decided to not construct any more surface roads in Haor areas.

Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (Bela) yesterday served a legal notice on the government, demanding it to formulate a time-based action plan to free 54 rivers from pollution and to prosecute the polluters.

Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (Bela) today served a legal notice to the government, demanding it to formulate a time-based action plan in order to free 54 rivers across the country from pollution and to prosecute the polluters.

A mild heat wave is sweeping over the regions of Rajshahi, Pabna, Dinajpur and Jashore and it may continue, said a Met Office bulletin.

Weeks after the first blow of early flash flood, another flood started inundating crops in a haor in Sunamganj yesterday.

Residents of Gaibandha Sadar upazila’s Tinmail started their morning with a rare and peculiar scene yesterday.

The road on the west of Dumuria’s Baliakhali bridge had to be crossed through the mighty Hamkura on ferries. The road is still there. The river, however, is not.

Hundreds of people of some villages in Sadar upazila of Gaibandha today (April 17, 2022) ran an elephant with their lives at stake after the circus mammal went berserk throwing its mahout from its back and came to the locality.

Hundreds of farmers in the northeastern region of the country continued to suffer immensely because of the flash flood.

Hundreds of acres of croplands on the banks of Jamuna in different upazilas of Sirajganj have been flooded by the onrush of waters from the upstream in the last few days.

Mahadev Rajbangshi (60) used to fish throughout the year in Bangshi river and used to make his living by selling fish.

Seven parks and playgrounds were opened for city dwellers in Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) area today.

Once a centre of attraction, Nodi, the 11-year-old lioness at Dulhazra Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park in Cox’s Bazar, is in critical condition.

“Dust is being generated due to construction and development work of both private and government agencies. However, it hasn’t reached an intolerable level,” said Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh.

For the last couple of weeks, Anowar Hossain, a resident of Sarafatganj Lane in Gandaria, has been suffering from nasal allergy. Anowar, who had no such problem earlier, started to face this issue after construction works for two establishments started in his area recently.

A day labourer died after being attacked by an elephant in Banshkhali upazila of Chattogram today (April 15, 2022).

Climate-change protesters snarled traffic by blocking four London bridges on Friday, while other activists continued weeks of demonstrations targeting oil terminals across Britain.

The forest department has demolished a road built within a reserve forest to transport sand and destroyed 28 sand extracting machines during a drive at Chakaria upazila of Cox's Bazar.

The United States (US) special presidential envoy for climate John Kerry today assured his country's assistance to Bangladesh in improving production of renewable energy as well as creating afforestation along the coastal belt.

Boro rice fields in low lying areas of numerous districts in the country’s northwest have been damaged by a sudden rush of water in the region, raising worries of losses due to reduced yields.