Gibbons are one of the most critically endangered primates in Bangladesh. Though once a prominent species, their numbers have dwindled due to continued loss of habitat and hunting.

Typhoon Chanthu drenched Taiwan with heavy rain Sunday as the storm’s center passed the island’s east coast heading for Shanghai.

The Environment, Forest and Climate Change Ministry has started taking steps to shut down Savar Tannery Complex, in line with the parliamentary standing committee's recommendation.

Twenty green organisations, based in Cox’s Bazar, urged the government to cancel the lease of 700 acres of protected forestland in the area.

Three areas in Barishal city have been declared as “silent zone”.

Department of Environment (DoE) in Chattogram (metro) has filed a case against a firm for cutting a hill while building a government office in the port city.

At least five districts in the country are facing erosion as river water started receding there, causing immense suffering to people.

French naval officer, explorer and conservationist Jacques-Yves Cousteau was not wrong when he said, “The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.”

I read a book about goshawks long before I saw one. A Northern Goshawk is the star of H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald. It is the riveting true story of the author training her newly acquired goshawk, and how her relationship with this wild bird of prey enabled her to cope with severe depression and emotional crisis following her father’s death.

The wildlife management and nature conservation division of Forest Department filed a Tk 3 crore compensation case against authorities of Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital (RMCH) for destroying the environment by killing birds in its premises.

A wildfire has forced the evacuation of nearly 800 people from around the southern Spanish resort of Estepona, local authorities said on Thursday.

A collective effort is required from ASEAN and other climate-vulnerable countries to ensure that governments meet their obligations under the Paris Climate Agreement, said Malaysian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Haznah Md Hashim.

The government is all set to inaugurate four new power plants and an upgraded one, which will have the capacity to produce 779 megawatts of electricity.

As the water level of Jamuna river dropped below the danger mark recently, flood water is slowly receding in Sirajganj.

The Department of Environment (DoE) in Chattogram today fined AK Khan Group and three others for damaging hills in Khulshi area of the port city.

The road connecting Bagerhat’s Morrelganj ferry terminal to the main road has been flooded.

A powerful earthquake struck southwestern Mexico near the beach resort of Acapulco on Tuesday night, killing at least one man who was crushed by a falling post, and causing rock falls and damaging buildings, authorities said.

Tidal surge has marooned nearly five thousand families of 100 villages under six upazilas of Patuakhali.

More than 42 million old vehicle tyres dumped in Kuwait's sands have started to be recycled, as the Gulf state tackles a waste problem that created one of the world's largest tyre graveyards.

Maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox's Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to keep hoisted local cautionary signal number three as a low pressure area has formed over the northwest Bay and adjoining areas of Bangladesh.