To make space for new administrative and academic buildings, authorities of Rajshahi University of Engineering Technology (Ruet) have felled around 50 trees recently, most of which are over half a century old.

The government has decided to keep CNG filling stations closed from 6:00pm to 10:00pm -- the peak hours of electricity supply -- every day for power rationing.

The government has decided to keep CNG filling stations closed from 6pm to 10pm every day, the peak hour of electricity supply, for power rationing.

A Bill titled “The Quick Enhancement of Electricity and Energy Supply (Special Provision) Act 2021” was placed in parliament today.

Salinity, rising sea levels and other adverse climate impacts could cause as many as 13.3 million people to leave their homes in the coastal areas of Bangladesh by 2050, a global World Bank report reveals.

A dolphin was found dead in the Teesta river in Rangpur’s Kaunia upazila yesterday. Mahbubul Alam, assistant fisheries official, said some fishers found the dolphin while catching fish in the river in the morning. Later, they informed police and fisheries officials.

Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister, Md Shahab Uddin, today said that the government is sincerely working to accommodate all the people affected by climate change by providing the required number of houses for them.

Due to deep depression formed in the Bay of Bengal, it has been raining intermittently in the Barishal region since this morning.

The Forest Department, in a drive last night, detained 44 fishermen and seized four trawlers for unauthorised entry into the Sundarbans.

Around 17% of Bangladesh will be submerged by rising sea levels, rendering 20 million people homeless, by 2050.

For four years now, a ship has remained anchored at Chattogram’s Parki beach.

Authorities have suspended an earlier decision to keep CNG filling stations closed everyday between 5pm and 11pm from September 15.

CNG filling stations will be closed between 5pm and 11pm every day from September 15.

The maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox's Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been directed to keep hoisted local cautionary signal 3 as the depression over Northwest Bay and adjoining Odisha coast intensified further into a deep depression and moved West-Northwestwards, said a Met office bulletin today.

Gibbons are one of the most critically endangered primates in Bangladesh. Though once a prominent species, their numbers have dwindled due to continued loss of habitat and hunting.

Typhoon Chanthu drenched Taiwan with heavy rain Sunday as the storm’s center passed the island’s east coast heading for Shanghai.

The Environment, Forest and Climate Change Ministry has started taking steps to shut down Savar Tannery Complex, in line with the parliamentary standing committee's recommendation.

Twenty green organisations, based in Cox’s Bazar, urged the government to cancel the lease of 700 acres of protected forestland in the area.

Three areas in Barishal city have been declared as “silent zone”.

Department of Environment (DoE) in Chattogram (metro) has filed a case against a firm for cutting a hill while building a government office in the port city.