environment

7 ways to help slow climate change

While individual carbon footprints are dwarfed by global fossil fuel companies, we can do a lot to tackle the climate crisis and “be the change we wish to see in the world.”
17 October 2022, 05:19 AM

Plastic waste mismanagement is killing our environment

Private sector companies who daily contribute to plastic pollution must come up with ways to manage it.
12 September 2022, 18:39 PM

Has your makeup been hurting the planet?

We continue to unknowingly harm the planet.
4 August 2022, 00:00 AM

Climate change is a matter of human rights, too

Most recently, the UN passed a resolution making it a human right for everyone on Planet Earth to have a healthy environment. The environmental advocates had been lobbying for this for many years and finally succeeded.
3 August 2022, 07:06 AM

Sad to see tigers imprisoned in safari parks: Deputy minister

Criticising the approach of safari parks for the so-called conservation of wildlife, Begum Habibun Nahar, deputy minister for environment, forest and climate change, today (July 2, 2022) said “it’s sad to watch wildlife suffering in the enclosures of safari park”.
2 July 2022, 11:09 AM

Implement development projects keeping adequate green area: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today (May 25, 2022) directed the authorities concerned to take high care of environment and ecology while taking up any development project.
25 May 2022, 15:09 PM

Lawachhara sees tourists double its capacity, biodiversity under threat

During the Eid holidays, Lawachhara National Park sees tourists double its capacity. This has been the trend for quite some years now, except for the hiatus due to the pandemic in the last two years.
8 May 2022, 18:00 PM

4 Ways to Celebrate an Eco-Friendly Eid

Make your Eid a little greener and thoughtful this year.
3 May 2022, 00:06 AM

Offshore Smart City: Can a parliamentary committee recommend a project to PM without due diligence?

Can a parliamentary standing committee recommend a project directly to the prime minister without any due diligence? The law explicitly does not permit it.
28 April 2022, 18:00 PM

HC halts waste dumping in Moulvibazar Eco Park following Daily Star report

The High Court today imposed an injunction on dumping waste in Borshijora Eco Park of Moulvibazar for the next six months.
28 April 2022, 09:51 AM

Police station being constructed at Tetultala playground with permission of all concerned: DMP

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has said that the Kalabagan Police Station is being constructed at the city's Tetultala​​​​​​​ playground with permission of all the authorities concerned.
26 April 2022, 11:47 AM

Construction on at Tetultala playground despite home minister’s assurance

Despite resistance from environmentalists, human rights bodies, eminent citizens, local people and children, construction work of Kalabagan police station is going on at Tetultala playground.
26 April 2022, 10:21 AM

RHD cutting down 622 trees for road expansion

More than one hundred trees have already been cut down and several hundred more are in the process to embrace the same fate. It is the situation of a portion of Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway.
22 April 2022, 18:00 PM

Cox's Bazar: Longest beach or biggest dumpster?

Like all other developing towns and cities in Bangladesh, Cox’s Bazar has been growing at a tremendously rapid rate. And, not surprisingly,
17 April 2022, 18:00 PM

Carbon footprint and you: slowing climate change starts at home

One of the factors contributing increasingly to a rise in climate change is a high carbon footprint. A carbon footprint is the total amount of greenhouse emissions (such as carbon dioxide and methane gas) that are generated by our actions as we live our life.
4 October 2021, 09:09 AM

Fun Upcycling Projects to Try

Fun ways to adopting a zero-waste lifestyle.
7 July 2021, 18:00 PM

Algal Biofuels: The Next Generation of Renewable Energy?

Algae are a remarkable candidate for biodiesel production.
24 June 2021, 11:02 AM

Go paperless for an eco-friendly workplace

Going paperless in the workplace can save money. Tons of it. Oh, it can reduce waste, improve employee efficiency and do good for the environment too.
4 June 2020, 18:00 PM

3 apps that help you support a greener earth

3 apps that can help you help the environment without going out in the wild
4 June 2020, 18:00 PM

The absence of climate change in fiction and other great derangements

The book explores our inability at the level of literature, history, and politics to grasp the scale and violence of climate change.
3 June 2020, 18:00 PM