People in Bangladesh every day inhale an alarming amount of black carbon, a particle not only harmful for human health but also responsible for global warming.

The air quality of Bangladesh remained the worst in the world for four years in a row, said a global report.

Once upon a time, there were ever-flowing streams running through the Satchhari National Park.

People in the port areas can heave a sigh of relief as the deep depression over the north Andaman Sea and the adjoining southeast Bay of Bengal is unlikely to intensify into a cyclone.

Air quality of Bangladesh was the worst in the world, while its capital, Dhaka, was the second most air polluted city in 2021, said a global report.

Mitu Sana, a homemaker from Gunari village at Khulna’s Dakop upazila, has to go to the Union Parishad pond -- far from her home -- to fetch drinking water.

Mitu Sana, a homemaker from Gunari village at Khulna’s Dakop upazila, has to go to the Union Parishad pond -- far from her home -- to fetch drinking water.

Department of Environment (DoE) today disconnected power connections of four dying factories and two printing presses over the violation of the environment act in the capital.

The depression over north Andaman Sea and adjoining southeast bay is likely to intensify further into a cyclonic storm by this afternoon and move in a north/northeasterly direction.

If you cruise through the Ujantia canal up to its estuary with the Matamuhuri river of Cox’s Bazar, you will see the last remnants of a mangrove forest, almost obliterated from the country’s south-eastern landscape.

After Gazipur and Dulahazra, the forest department has finalised plans to build the country’s third safari park in Lathitila forest, located in Moulvibazar’s Juri upazila.

The well-marked low pressure in the southeast Bay of Bengal and its adjoining Andaman Sea has intensified into a depression, said Bangladesh Meteorological Department in a weather forecast bulletin issued at 9:00 am today.

A leopard was killed after being electrocuted while trying to enter a poultry farm in a village in Nilphamari Sadar upazila on early Friday.According to the Mahbub George, chairperson of the union, the cheetah was trying to steal chicken from a poultry farm owned by one Aliar Rahman. It was accompanied by another leopard, which was hiding in a nearby maize field.

Dhaka’s air quality continues to be “unhealthy”, but the densely populated capital of Bangladesh is no longer the world’s most polluted city.

It will be a rare instance of a cyclone hitting the coasts of Bangladesh and Myanmar in March if the low-pressure system brewing in the Bay of Bengal develops into a full-fledged cyclone “Asani”.

A leopard was killed after being electrocuted while trying to enter a poultry farm in a village in Nilphamari Sadar upazila early today.

A low pressure area formed over the Indian Ocean and adjoining southwest Bay of Bengal which could develop into this year’s first cyclone “Asani”.

Thousands of Japanese households remained without power on Thursday (March 17) as companies worked to assess damage the morning after a powerful quake hit the northeast coast of Japan, leaving at least four dead and nearly 100 injured, some seriously. 

A powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Fukushima in northern Japan on Wednesday evening, triggering a tsunami advisory and plunging more than 2 million homes in the Tokyo area into darkness.

The High Court today directed the government to evict all the 126 structures built illegally on the land of Chaktai Khal (canal) and Rajakhali Khal in Chattogram in 90 days.