This year’s summer started early with devastating heat waves across the globe. South Asia is experiencing its highest temperatures in the last 122 years, leading to at least 90 heat-related deaths in Pakistan and India. The People’s Republic of China suffered three consecutive heat waves, breaking long-standing records, with temperatures exceeding 42 degrees Celsius.

Fuel oil traders of Khulna has been observing a 12-hour strike since morning in order to press home their three-point demand including increased commission and tank-lorry rents.

A python was released in the Sundarbans after it was rescued from a locality adjacent to the forest in Mongla upazila of Bagerhat today (August 21, 2022).

Bangladesh is contemplating import of Russian oil via a third country.

Even though Forest Department found and rescued three capped langurs, endangered animals that cannot be caught and caged by law, from a lawmaker’s bungalow in Savar, no legal action has been taken against him.

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Petrobangla has begun drilling a development well at Shahbazpur Gas Field in Bhola.

The maritime ports have been advised to hoist local cautionary signal three, the weather department said yesterday.

Proper waste management is necessary to prevent pollution caused by the release of toxic substances of plastic into soil, water and air, to protect humans and nature, said speakers at a meeting in Khulna on Wednesday.

The death toll from this season’s floods in the country rose to 140 with another death in Sylhet in 24 hours till yesterday morning.

Petrobangla has begun drilling a development well of Shahbazpur Gas Field in the southern district of Bhola.

Low-lying areas of 15 coastal districts in Bangladesh, including their offshore islands and chars, are likely to be inundated by tidal surges, the weather department said on Friday.

After a marked improvement in the past week, Dhaka’s air quality slipped back to the ‘unhealthy’ zone yesterday morning.

Adviser to the Prime Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Dr Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury is optimistic of overcoming the ongoing power and energy crisis in the country created due to the Russia-Ukraine war.

Climate change will put about 14.8 million people at risk of hunger by 2030, says Global Food Policy Report-2022.

More than 22,000 people in the capital died due to air pollution in 2019, says a global report.

Bangladesh is planning to buy fuel oil from Russia.

Due to the Dhaka-Sylhet railway and Srimangal-Bhanugach road running through the reserve forest of Lawachhara, many of the critically endangered species have died in accidents while crossing them.

State Minister for Power, Energy, And Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid today (August 14, 2022) said there has been no shortage of efforts to use Bangladesh’s own gas resources.

With an air quality index (AQI) score of 45, Dhaka's air quality has been “good” this morning (August 14, 2022).