Screaming loudly and wildly flapping their wings, the ducks abruptly took off from the water about two hundred feet from our boat.

An endangered vulture was rescued from a paddy field in the Kabirajpara area of ​​Sonakata union in Barguna’s Taltali upazila yesterday.

Environment, Forest and Climate Change minister Md Shahab Uddin yesterday said they were not being able to conserve wildlife, citing section-18 (Kha) of the constitution that makes it mandatory to do so.

Citing the constitution that makes it mandatory to protect forest, environment and wildlife, Environment Minister Md Shahab Uddin today said they were not able to conserve wildlife.

Bangladesh has urged the member states of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) to abide by the UN framework to ensure effective protection of the marine environment from harmful effects that may arise from deep-seabed related activities.

The Green Factory Award 2020 was given to 30 establishments -- from six sectors of the country – today, in recognition of their contributions to protecting the environment and the job market.

Crops, especially winter vegetables, on vast areas have been damaged due to the untimely rain that lashed different districts across the country in the last three days.

The untimely rain that lashed different areas of the country for the last two days could result in extensive damage to crops, especially winter vegetables and seedbeds.

The unexpected tide of the Sakbaria river, due to depression in the Bay, has inundated two villages in Khulna's Koyra upazila. As a result, around 200 families in the villages of Gatirgheri and Hariharpur are waterlogged.

More rain is expected at places over Khulna, Barishal, Dhaka and Chattogram divisions during the next 24 hours, from this morning, as the depression in the Bay of Bengal weakened to a well-marked low.

On a November afternoon several weeks back, a middle-aged man, appearing to be a fish vendor, was spotted in Kaminiganj Bazar area of Moulvibazar’s Juri upazila.

Forest department in Sylhet today detained an alleged wild and migratory bird seller while he was carrying 14 migratory birds, killed with poison.

India will provide 20 percent more electricity to Bangladesh under a renewed bilateral contract -- for five more years, officials said today.

More than 1,000 tourists remain stranded in St Martin's island due to rough weather caused by Cyclone Jawad in the Bay of Bengal.

Cyclonic storm Jawad over west-central Bay and adjoining northwest Bay moved northwards further and weakened into a deep depression, according to Bangladesh Meteorological Department.

Disaster officials in Indonesia raised the death toll in the eruption of Mount Semeru to 13 on Sunday, as rescuers working through the night freed as many as 10 people from the debris.

Sudden erosion by the Padma river has devoured fresh areas in Ishwardi upazila in the last few weeks, much to the worries of the local people.

Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) has predicted rain or thundershowers in many parts of the country in the next 24 hours, a forecast is attributed to the deep depression over the west-central Bay of Bengal.

The Red Munia entered my childhood through a story about the Creator painting birds after creating them. However, one fidgety bird has flown off before being painted and returns just when He finishes. There are a few drops of paint remaining with which He splatters this bird. And so this exquisite bird was created with spots of white sprinkled on red.

A parliamentary committee meeting has directed the government to investigate the recent serious of elephant deaths due to electrocution and file a report at the next meeting.