A total of 1,60,566 individuals and organisations have grabbed 2.57 lakh acres of forest land across the country.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has upheld--until further orders--a High Court directive that asked the government to shut down all illegal brick kilns with no valid license in Chattogram.

Department of Environment (DoE) Chattogram today shut down a dyeing factory for polluting Beerja canal by releasing untreated substance into it.

Expressing serious concern over the current levels of air pollution in Dhaka, the High Court today issued three new directives on the authorities concerned to keep this pollution in check.

Leading diplomats and advocates for action on climate change have praised the Bangladesh government for its extraordinary capacity of early warning and disaster preparedness.

A senior engineer of the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED), a construction firm and a sub-contractor were fined Tk 7 lakh by the Department of Environment (DoE) today, for razing hills in Bandarban’s Lama upazila.

The High Court today directed the authorities concerned of government to immediately shut down all the illegal brick kilns in Chattogram and to submit a report after complying with the directive by February 18.

In a victory for environmentalists, a Dutch appeals court has said that the Nigerian subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell was responsible for multiple oil pipeline leaks in the Niger Delta and ordered it to pay unspecified damages to farmers.

A mobile court of the Department of Environment (DoE) in Rangpur has demolished seven illegal brick kilns in two upazilas of Rangpur.

US President Joe Biden’s Climate Envoy John Kerry has assured Bangladesh of continued support and cooperation on tackling climate change impacts as he called Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen last evening.

Department of Environment (DoE) today fined Feni University Tk 5 lakh for encroaching upon a century-old waterbody at Feni Sadar upazila.

Bangladesh Environment Lawyers Association (BELA) and Cox's Bazar based environment organisation Youth Environment Society (YES) served a legal notice upon six government bodies including Land Ministry, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and Roads and Highways (RHD) over filling up of Kohelia River in Cox's Bazar.

Department of Environment (DoE) in Chattogram region has fined Power Development Board (PDB) in Brahmanbaria’s Ashuganj Tk 5 lakh for filling up two large ponds to facilitate construction of a residential block.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said global adaptation over climate change is still far from the pace of devastation just for lack of funds and political will.

Earth’s ice is melting faster today than in the mid-1990s, new research suggests, as climate change nudges global temperatures ever higher.

The Vulnerable 20 Group of Finance Ministers (V20) have highlighted mounting pressures to their economies amidst climate disasters and the Covid-19 pandemic during the inaugural Global Climate Adaptation (GCA) Summit.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to announce a new international coalition, which includes Bangladesh, to tackle the impacts of climate change.

Two teenage boys died in an attack by a wild elephant in Alikadam upazila of Bandarban early today.

Detective Branch of police today arrested two poachers with 19 deer hides at Sharankhola upazila, said Pankaj Chandra Roy, superintendent of Bagerhat police, at a press briefing.

Tesla Inc chief and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk on Thursday took to Twitter to promise a $100 million prize for development of the “best” technology to capture carbon dioxide emissions.