Pollution

Every river around Dhaka city is extremely polluted where the amount of faecal bacteria is too numerous to count. Photo: TBS
Environment

Environmentalists for clearer laws against pollution

Pure Earth has done some lead cleanup in Mirzapur in Tangail, and in Ashulia, Dhaka, where informal battery recycling factories contaminated land and water. Photo: Courtesy
Panorama

Lead poisoning: Pure Earth wants us to be worried

Are you blamed for Digital Pollution?
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Are you blamed for Digital Pollution?

Infographic: TBS
Bangladesh

Geocycle: An epitome of sustainable waste management

Smoke rises from the Duvha coal-based power station owned by state power utility Eskom, in Mpumalanga province, South Africa, 18 February, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings
World+Biz

EU to urge big polluters to toughen climate pledges by COP27 summit

A road overflows with liquid effluent from pipelines connected to tannery factories. Due to the loadshedding, a number effluent pumping stations shut down at various points, leading to the water overflowing onto the roads and then reaching Dhaleshwari river untreated through surface drains. Photo: TBS
Energy

Load shedding leads to Savar tannery waste overflows, environmental pollution

Representational picture of air pollution. Picture: Pixabay
Europe

Pollution linked to 10% of cancer cases in Europe: Report

South City's initiative to free Dhaka from pollution, traffic jams
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South City's initiative to free Dhaka from pollution, traffic jams

Photo: Collected
Environment

Bangladesh among lowest performers in curbing environmental pollution

Pollution killing 9 million people a year
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Pollution killing 9 million people a year

Smoke rises from the Duvha coal-based power station owned by state power utility Eskom, in Mpumalanga province, South Africa, 18 February, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings
Environment

Pollution killing 9 million people a year, Africa hardest hit: Study

Photo: Salahuddin Ahmed
Environment

BELA legal notice seeks initiative for pollution free rivers

Stuart Braun. Sketch: TBS
Thoughts

Cities are major polluters: Can we make them climate neutral?