Germany will provide 10.5 million euros (approximately Tk 113.5 crore) to Bangladesh for a programme aiming to ensure productive use of renewable energy in remote areas of the country.

Overweight adults are more susceptible to diseases triggered by air pollution because they breathe in more air, a new scientific study has found.

Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (Bela) is preparing to take legal steps against the persons, who have grabbed Shibbaria River under Kalapara upazila of Patuakhali district.

Brick kilns set up on croplands have been adversely affecting the agricultural production in Lalmonirhat district over the years.

Indigenous people of Chandipur village in Sadar upazila are in a state of panic as six people of the village died of an 'unknown' discse within 20 days from January 10 to 30.

The High Court yesterday directed the government to immediately take steps to stop dumping of wastes into the Narod river in Natore and its pollution.

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) yesterday approved two power plants to produce a total of 375 megawatt (MW) under two projects.

Hill cutting goes on unabated at North Pahartali in Chittagong city in the name of unauthorised housing projects.

The wildlife in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) is on the brink of extinction, as illegal logging and poaching go side by side amid lax monitoring by forest department.

At least 22.7 percent of the working children in Savar upazila of Dhaka have been forced into child labour chiefly because of family problems and penury, according to a survey.