Dhaka’s air quality index (AQI) was recorded at 269 at 10:11am yesterday, once again making the capital’s air the world’s most polluted.

Dhaka’s air is once again the world’s most polluted.

The level of pollutants in the Buriganga water samples taken from some dyeing factory effluent release points is much higher than standard levels, found a study.

Dhaka’s air quality continues to be “unhealthy”.

The water quality of the Buriganga continues to be poor even though it has been almost five years since the tanneries from the capital’s Hazaribagh area were relocated to an estate in Hemayetpur of Savar.  

In a The Lancet Planetary Health journal study, researchers looked at PM2.5 (fine particulate matter with a diameter of 2.5 micrometres or less) - the leading environmental risk factor for disease. Inhalation increases the risk of premature death from conditions such as cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, lung cancer, and lower respiratory infection.

Dhaka ranked second in the list of cities with the worst air quality in the world this afternoon.

Dhaka continues to gasp for fresh air as the city ranks the fourth most polluted city. Dhaka’s air quality index (AQI) score was recorded at 197 at 10am yesterday, which is considered “unhealthy”.

Dhaka continues to gasp for fresh air as it ranks fourth most polluted city in the world.

From Mount Everest to the Mariana Trench, microplastics are everywhere – even high in the Earth’s troposphere where wind speeds allow them to travel vast distances, a study showed Tuesday.

Bangladesh’s plastic consumption in urban areas tripled in the 15 years to 2020, found a World Bank study, in what can be viewed as a setback for the government’s efforts to beat plastic pollution.

Smoke from cooking stoves that burn coal, wood, dung, and crop residues caused the deaths of almost 18,000 people in Bangladesh in 2017, according to a global study. 

Horns are a major cause of hearing loss among Dhaka residents. Despite the ban on hydraulic horns, noise pollution couldn’t be curbed as laws remain ineffective. Speakers at a roundtable yesterday raised the issue and stressed on effective measures from law enforcers as well as public awareness.

Delhi shut down schools until further notice, urged people to work from home and banned non-essential trucks from entering the Indian capital due to dangerous levels of air pollution.

The morning after Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, residents of New Delhi woke up under a blanket of toxic smog and breathed in the most dangerously polluted air of the year so far, after revellers, as usual, defied a fireworks ban.

Rampant river-grabbing by influential persons mixed with reluctance on the authorities’ side to take steps against them, squeezed into a corner, the Bhairab river stands as a major waterbody being completely given to grabbing and pollution.

Dhaka was ranked second in the list of cities with the worst air quality. The city’s air quality index (AQI) was recorded at 159 around 9:15am yesterday, which is considered “unhealthy”.

A parliamentary watchdog yesterday recommended giving compensation to victims of environment pollution from fines collected from polluters.

Two major riverbanks on the capital’s outskirts remain at the mercy of illegal encroachers, and the only action the government has taken over the last decade is preparing lists of the grabbers,  without taking any action against them.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday issued its first air quality guidelines since 2005 aimed at reducing deaths from key pollutants that cause cardiovascular and respiratory diseases.