Hathazari Upazila Parishad, a local government body, has been nominated for the Prime Minister's National Award for Tree Plantation-2020, despite neither planting any tree nor applying for the award.

The energy regulator yesterday reduced the retail prices of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) of private companies by Tk 93 for every 12kg LPG cylinder.

A parliamentary committee yesterday strongly recommended to save the river Buriganga, the lifeline of the capital, from pollution within the next one year.

The Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming today (June 2, 2022) said the 1,224 megawatt coal fired SS power plant’s first unit will start generating electricity by December in Banshkhali upazila’s Gondamara union.

Three students, including two female madrasa pupils, were killed by lightning in Dhaka and Mymensingh today (June 2, 2022).

Bangladesh will call for green finance and global cooperation at the Stockholm +50 that began in Sweden today (June 2, 2022), as the country bears the brunt of climate change impacts because of Covid-19 pandemic and Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The energy regulator today reduced the retail prices of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) of private companies by Tk 93 for every 12kg LPG cylinder.

A python was rescued from a pen housing ducks and swans in Bagerhat's Sarankhola upazila this morning.

Narayanganj has become the first city in Bangladesh to adopt a climate resilient development plan.

Bangladesh would not be buying crude oil from Western-sanctioned Russia as its refinery is configured to process only oil from the Arab countries, said Nasrul Hamid, the state minister for power, energy and mineral resources.

Fishermen and visitors have been banned from entering the Sundarbans for three months, starting today, for the smooth breeding of fish inside the forest’s rivers and canals.

Bangladesh’s refinery is not technically capable of using Russian crude oil, said State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid.

The Forest Department has barred fishermen and visitors from entering the Sundarbans from June 1 to August 31.

The country’s maritime ports have been advised to hoist the local cautionary signal three to alert vessels of a possible squall as deep convection is taking place over the North Bay, said the weather department today (May 30, 2022).

The air quality in Dhaka’s Shahbagh area is the worst, while Gulshan-2 has the worst level of noise pollution in the capital, finds a new study.

An Asian elephant, which was rescued from a muddy swamp in Rangunia a month ago, died while undergoing treatment in Dulahazara Safari Park in Chakaria, Cox's Bazar.

The Supreme Court today scrapped a High Court verdict that allowed Md Salim Khan, a local Awami League leader, to extract sand from the Meghna river in Chandpur.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh is filling up a large waterbody on the eastern side of the Hajj camp at the capital’s Ashkona for a housing project for its officials and employees, violating a conservation law.

With a call to generate and allocate necessary global funding for least developed countries that are facing natural disasters to strengthen the culture of disaster preparedness and investing in technology, the seventh Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GPDRR) 2022 ended yesterday in Bali, Indonesia.

A lush green forest in southern Chile might be home to the world's oldest tree after a new study found that an ancient alerce tree known as "great grandfather" could be more than 5,000 years old.