An Atlantic storm battered southern Britain and Ireland with winds of up to 100 miles per hour on Friday, uprooting trees, stranding travellers and hammering London.

Green activists in Habiganj yesterday demanded proper investigation and punishment of those involved in grabbing rivers and causing industrial pollution.

Rio de Janeiro state’s government has confirmed 105 deaths from floods and mudslides that swept away homes and cars in the city of Petropolis. But even as families prepared to bury their dead, it was unclear Thursday how many bodies remained trapped in the mud.

All the illegal structures which will fall under the boundary of canals in Dhaka city will be evicted, said Local Government Rural Development Minister Tazul Islam today.

A shark killed a swimmer off a Sydney beach on Wednesday in the city's first fatal attack in nearly 60 years, causing "catastrophic injuries", police and ambulance services said.

Speakers at a roundtable discussion in Sylhet today urged the government to step back from constructing a safari park at Lathitila forest in Moulvibazar district.

A total of 318 illegal brick kilns are still running and polluting the environment in Dhaka and four other surrounding districts -- Gazipur, Manikganj, Narayanganj and Munshiganj -- even after 95 were shut down through mobile courts recently.

The High Court yesterday wanted to know the major sources of air pollution in the country and the government’s action plan to curb it.

A nationwide survey on sound pollution kicked off from Manikganj district today.

Bangladesh has sought Indian support for the trilateral cooperation in hydropower energy among Bangladesh, Bhutan and India.

Pollution by states and companies is contributing to more deaths globally than Covid-19, a UN environmental report published on Tuesday said, calling for "immediate and ambitious action" to ban some toxic chemicals.

The torrent of man-made chemical and plastic waste worldwide has massively exceeded limits safe for humanity or the planet, and production caps are urgently needed, scientists have concluded for the first time.

The High Court today directed the authorities concerned of the government to identify and make a list of the activities, which are mainly responsible for air pollution across the country.

A recent study by the University of York has found that pharmaceutical pollution is affecting rivers across the world including Bangladesh.

To stop criminal acts of deforestation and raise awareness on the Sundarbans, a mass apology was offered to the largest mangrove forest.

Despite criticism from environmentalists, amidst deaths of animals in Gazipur safari park, the government is moving forward with the project of third Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park at Lathitila forest in Juri, Moulvibazar.

The High Court today issued a rule asking the government to explain in four weeks why the negligence of authorities concerned of Gazipur’s Bangabandhu Safari Park in ensuring the wellbeing of animals should not be declared Illegal.

Locals beat a rare palm civet to death when it came to the locality from the forest on in Chunarughat upazila of Habiganj this afternoon. 

A king cobra and a python, two large snake species, have been rescued from Chittagong University campus and Sitakunda upazila in Chattogram.

India is hoping to cut diesel use by farms to zero and migrate the agriculture sector to renewable energy as early as 2024, the country's power ministry said on Friday, as a part of its broader plan to transition to cleaner energy sources.