Bangladesh is among the countries worst affected by lead pollution, with millions of children exposed to hazardous levels, experts said at a workshop in a Dhaka hotel yesterday.

Rising air pollution forces residents to rethink the safety of outdoor acitivities

A new World Bank report has ranked Bangladesh as South Asia’s worst-hit country by air pollution, with 100 percent of schoolchildren in Dhaka and nearby areas exposed to unsafe levels of fine particulate matter (PM2.5).

The High Court yesterday further directed the government to implement its nine directives to curb air pollution in Dhaka and submit a compliance report to the court within three weeks.

Over 30,000 deaths directly attributed to fossil fuels

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.

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

Bangladesh is grappling with alarming levels of air and noise pollution and electronic waste, all of which pose serious health risks to children, experts cautioned at an event yesterday..They were speaking at the launch of a new handbook on Children’s Health and the Environment at CIRDAP i

Burai Beel, a natural wetland near Tangail district town, is rapidly shrinking due to pollution and encroachment

Air pollution is cutting Bangladeshis’ average life expectancy by 5.5 years, making it the country’s deadliest external health risk, according to a report published yesterday.

Today's air was classified as "unhealthy for sensitive groups", referring to a health threat.

Dhaka has ranked third on the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI score of 162 this morning

The HC bench of Justice Kazi Zinat Hoque and Justice Aynun Nahar Siddiqua issued the rule after hearing a writ petition

"I urge all of you not to throw wastages indiscriminately… You please keep your society clean," the DNCC Administrator Mohammad Azaz said

Dhaka has topped the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI index of 173 at 9:05am today

Soil, groundwater and air pollution poses serious health hazards to people around Amin Bazar landfill

Bangladesh was the world’s second most polluted country in 2024, with average smog levels exceeding World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines by more than 15 times, according to data compiled by Swiss air quality monitoring firm IQAir. 

Dhaka has topped the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI index of 304 at 09:04am today