For half a century scientists feared that the Somali elephant shrew had vanished from the face of the Earth. No one had seen so much as a whisker.

The Department of Environment (DoE) in Chattogram has region fined five businesses including Ashuganj 400MW combined cycle power plant Tk 23 lakh 50 thousand for damaging the environment.

The number of fires in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest jumped 28% in July from a year ago, official data shows, as some environmentalists have warned a jump could signal a repeat of last year’s surging destruction of the world’s largest rainforest.

Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg has pledged to donate 100,000 euro from prize money to flood relief efforts in Bangladesh and India.

Bangladesh’s policy to set up coal-fired power plants will result in a long-term financial burden, a speaker say at a webinar.

Bonayan, the largest private afforestation program in Bangladesh, and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) are collaborating for a tree plantation program to celebrate "Mujib Borsho" -- the birth centennial of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman -- and 40 years of Bonayan, which began in 1980.

Cox’s Bazar district administration has formed a five-member committee to look into how waste washed ashore and got scattered along the Cox’s Bazar beach.

A female Siberian tiger attacked and killed a 55-year-old zookeeper at Zurich's zoo on Saturday, the authorities say.

Residents of remote Kalu Mro Para in Bandarban’s Lama upazila have called upon the authorities concerned to protect the forest in their village from being destroyed by alleged criminals.

Once crowded and noisy, the Bogura Govt Azizul Haque College campus remains quiet for months, due to closure during the pandemic. The silver lining? The green grounds becoming a bird paradise.

Thousands of people in flood-affected areas of Bogura and Gaibandha districts are in search of safe shelter, a source of fresh drinking water, sanitation facilities and relief goods but to no avail. The condition continues to deteriorate as the waters of Brahmaputra, Jamuna and Ghagot rivers is rising steadily.

The forest department has decided to ban the netting of fishes from all rivers and canals in the Sundarbans for the next two months, starting July 1.

With seven days gone and no sign of the mother bear, Bhadanta Nandamala Thera, head of Lama Zinamayzu Orphanage in Bandarban, handed over a bear cub to the forest department.

Bangladesh has asked for a "bold decision" from UN Security Council (UNSC) to ensure security and peace across nations by addressing climate challenge through partnership and collaboration.

Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA) has received the 2020 Tang Prize in ‘Rule of Law’ for its “efforts in furthering the rule of law and its institutions through education and advocacy”.

At least five new birds were seen for the first time in Bangladesh between May 21 and 22 this year.

For generations, elephants have been inextricably tied to the lands of Mondulkiri in Cambodia. The people who call this place their home -- the indigenous Bunong community -- share a unique bond with the gentle giants of the land.

Saltwater crocodiles in Sundarbans face multiple threats—habitat degradation, poaching, development pressure, climate change and rising pollution, to name a few.

A Chattogarm based contractor is fined Tk 3 lakh for illegally flattening 24,000 square feet of hill without prior permission from the Department of Environment (DoE) at Raozan upazila of Chattogram, after The Daily Star ran a report on hill cutting at the area.

Taking cognisance of the death of a pregnant wild elephant at Silent Valley Forest in the southern state of Kerala, India’s National Green Tribunal forms a committee and directed it to submit an action-taken report on the matter.