Bangladesh environment

Curbing air pollution should be our top priority

It poses the greatest environmental threat to human health

A shrinking Buriganga is nature's wake-up call to us

Preventing and punishing river encroachers vital for its restoration

Are we to give up on breathing clean air?

No visible progress in curbing air pollution in Dhaka

Shall we just bow to illegal sand lifters?

Government must take stern action against those lifting sand from Jamuna, Meghna

Stop encroachment of Arial Beel

Authorities must act on High Court’s directive to save the endangered wetland

Save Arial Beel from real estate sharks

Encroachers are destroying the once-thriving ecosystem of this wetland

World Environment Day / Living in the land of dying rivers

What's happening to our rivers is not driven just by necessity, but also greed, a general disregard for the sanctity of life, and a reckless can-do-ism.

Greater effort needed to stop sand extraction from Teesta

Government must protect our rivers from being polluted, encroached or harmed in other ways

Drowning in plastic, shall we just surrender to our fate?

Plastic pollution has reached a stage where only drastic action can reverse the trend

March 3, 2023
March 3, 2023

Dhanmondi Lake needs to be protected

Politics, greed and negligence threaten to compromise the integrity of the lake area

February 11, 2023
February 11, 2023

A canal here, a bird refuge there...

One by one, we’re losing precious natural resources to greed and apathy

February 3, 2023
February 3, 2023

Stop sand extraction from rivers

It's increasing the risk of river erosion, endangering farmland and depleting soil fertility

January 24, 2023
January 24, 2023

Brick kiln for hills? Not really a choice

Authorities must step up efforts to protect hills from being ravaged

January 23, 2023
January 23, 2023

Tea estate ignites wildfire, kills scores of animals

Hatimara Tea Garden took lease of a land near Rema-Kalenga Wildlife Sanctuary in Habiganj’s Chunarughat upazila some years ago. The place was a safe habitat for wildlife and hosted century-old trees... up until January 19, 2023.

January 19, 2023
January 19, 2023

37,000 River Grabbers: NRCC decision to withhold names draws flak

The National River Conservation Commission has decided not to publish a list of 37,000 new encroachers of 48 rivers and the environment activists say protecting their identities is tantamount to siding with the grabbers.

October 2, 2022
October 2, 2022

As Dhaka is cooked, it is the poor who are suffering more

Do city authorities have any plans to deal with heat stress from extreme temperatures?

June 17, 2022
June 17, 2022

We can’t always gain by monetising nature

Flawed environment decisions and resulting failures are not new in the policy context of Bangladesh. And yet, they thrive.

June 25, 2018
June 25, 2018

Commentary: So what else are we going to rob?

A new kind of robbery is wreaking havoc in some parts of our countryside. A robbery that forms a part of a far bigger picture of destruction of our ecology and thereby robbing our future generations of their chance to lead a healthy and prosperous life.

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