air pollution
Air pollution shortens lives by 3 years: study
A 'pandemic' of air pollution shortens lives worldwide by nearly three years on average, and causes 8.8 million premature deaths annually, scientists has said.
Matarbari Coal Power Plant: Pollution to claim 14,000 lives in 30 yrs
Over three million people from South and Southeast Asia, including Bangladesh, will be exposed to air pollution and face health hazards as the Japanese public finance agencies are funding 17 coal...
Japan exports air pollution to countries including Bangladesh
Greenpeace in a report alleged that Japanese government is exporting air pollution by financing polluting coal fired power plants overseas, imposing a great heath risk to the people of those...
Jakarta residents sue Indonesia government over air pollution
Residents of Indonesia’s capital have filed a lawsuit against the government over the toxic levels of air pollution that regularly blanket the city.
Ozone: An emerging air pollutant in Dhaka City
The fact depicted by recent global surveys that Dhaka is the second most air-polluted capital city of the world is surely not delighting for anyone. Several sporadic scientific studies were carried...
Life goes on under cloud of smog in Mexico City
Scientists say breathing the heavily polluted air in Mexico City these days is like smoking somewhere between a quarter- and a half-pack of cigarettes a day.
Air pollution: HC summons Dhaka city CEOs
The High Court summons chief executive officers (CEOs) of Dhaka north and south city corporations to appear before it on May 15 to explain their steps about complying with its directive to curb air...
Dhaka air ranks 2nd worst
Dhaka ranked second worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) yesterday.
Traffic-related air pollution associated with 4m new cases of childhood asthma every year
The first global estimates of their kind suggest that more than one in ten childhood asthma cases could be linked to traffic-related air pollution every year,
Raising our children amidst poisonous air
This is no city to raise your children in,” a friend was telling me the other day. “Either you leave the country or leave the city and go somewhere where your kids don't have to breathe poison.”
We are breathing poison!
A new global study has found that indoor and outdoor air pollution led to 1.23 lakh deaths in Bangladesh in 2017.