Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA) yesterday served a legal notice on the government, asking it to immediately suspend all activities of the Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway improvement (Phase-II) project at Chunati Wildlife Sanctuary in order to properly protect its forests, wildlife, and biodiversity.

Millions unprepared as unplanned urbanisation leaves Dhaka most exposed to catastrophic losses

Vulnerable communities in Bangladesh are taking the lead in climate action by developing their own adaptation strategies to tackle recurring challenges such as floods, waterlogging, and heatwaves

Civil society group urges world leaders to act on climate crisis, social injustice before COP30

Enforcing law does not mean only imposing fine, she says

Flash floods triggered by onrush of water from upstream hills left two people dead in Sherpur’s Jhenaigati and Nalitabari upazilas.

The Roads and Highways Department’s move to expand the Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway running through the Chunati Wildlife Sanctuary could spell disaster for wildlife habitats and disrupt several key elephant corridors in the ecologically sensitive area, warn forest officials and environmentalists.

BPC begins supplying diesel to Dhaka via pipeline

Climate change is spurring increasingly erratic and extreme swings between deluge and drought globally, with cascading repercussions for societies, the United Nations warned yesterday.

Global climate study says Bangladesh among world’s most heat-stricken nations

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

Water may recede within 48hrs, says FFWC

The rapidly-produced study is the latest effort by climate and health researchers to quickly link the death toll during heatwaves to global warming

Women bear brunt as Satkhira’s salinity crosses WHO limit

Stresses importance of forecast-based action

A 5.9 earthquake shook Dhaka and some parts of Bangladesh yesterday afternoon, according to USGS.

Waterlogging may occur in Dhaka, Chattogram

A 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Kamchatka in Russia’s Far East on Saturday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said.

Dredging work of the Ichamati river in Pabna town has been badly hampered due to a prolonged legal battle with encroachers, raising concerns over the completion of the Tk 1,554 crore project.

A Hanuman langur sits on the railing of the Batiaghata bridge in Khulna, its long tail trailing behind. Forced into human spaces by shrinking forests and scarce food, it scans the roadside trees for fruit.