air pollution
Chattogram could become a carbon catastrophe on a global scale: Study
Chattogram division is at high risk of being one of the world’s largest carbon catastrophes once all the fossil fuel power plants – planned to be constructed in the division – come into operation,...
Pollution claims 9m lives each year; Africa worst affected
Worsening outdoor air pollution and toxic lead poisoning have kept global deaths from environmental contamination at an estimated 9 million per year since 2015 – countering modest progress made in...
Chattogram could become a carbon catastrophe on a global scale: Study
Chattogram division is at high risk of being one of the world’s largest carbon catastrophes once all the fossil fuel power plants – planned to be constructed in the division – come into operation,...
Why illegal brick kilns still operating in Dhaka, surrounding districts?
The High Court today asked the director general (DG) of Department of Environment (DoE) and deputy commissioners (DCs) of Dhaka and four other surrounding districts – Gazipur, Manikganj,...
Dhaka air dusty and deadly
For the last couple of weeks, Anowar Hossain, a resident of Sarafatganj Lane in Gandaria, has been suffering from nasal allergy. Anowar, who had no such problem earlier, started to face this issue...
99pc of people on Earth breathing polluted air: WHO
A full 99 percent of people on Earth breathe air containing too many pollutants, the World Health Organization said yesterday, blaming poor air quality for millions of deaths each year.
Air pollution is an existential threat for us. We must act.
Every year, the Economist Intelligence Unit publishes a list of liveable cities in the world, where Dhaka is inevitably placed near the bottom.
Dhaka's air 2nd most polluted in the world this morning, Russia’s Krasnoyarsk tops AQI list
Dhaka's air rated as the world's second-most polluted this morning.
Dhaka’s air 2nd most polluted in the world today: AQI
Dhaka ranked second in the list of cities with the worst air quality in the world this afternoon.
Air Quality Index: Dhaka 4th most polluted, Dubai tops list
Dhaka continues to gasp for fresh air as it ranks fourth most polluted city in the world.
World Air Quality Report 2020: Bangladesh most polluted
Air quality of Bangladesh was the worst in the world, while its capital Dhaka was the second most air polluted city in 2020, said a global report.