The four major rivers — Jamuna, Ganges, Padma and Meghna — may grab around 3,700 hectares of land leaving 36,680 people landless and homeless this year.

The residents of Khulna city and five upazilas of the district may face an acute crisis of pure drinking water in the current summer season because of drastic fall in groundwater level as necessary

Amid fears of adverse impacts of genetically-modified crop on biodiversity and human health, a limited produce of controversial Bt brinjal is likely to arrive on the local market in May.

HATIL Complex Ltd, a furniture producing company has won HSBC-The Daily Star Climate Award 2013 in Green Operation Category.

Department of Environment (DoE) on Monday fined eight mills and factories in Chittagong Tk 18.6 million for polluting environment.

Disposal of factory waste and chemicals are polluting waters of Haridoa and old Brahmaputra river in the district posing serious threat to public health and environment as well.

Like it or loathe it, local firm Orion Group is going to complete a furnace oil-fired power plant by occupying a portion of the Buriganga river at Kashipur point under Fatullah in Narayanganj.

Department of Public Health Engineering (DPHE) on Thursday opened two water supply projects to ensure safe drinking water for people especially passerby.

The Board of the World Bank (WB) is likely to approve a mega power transmission and distribution project of Bangladesh with an estimation cost of $580 million, aiming to reduce power system loss b

Seventy-one percent of the buildings in Dhaka would be severely damaged — over one-third of them would collapse — if an earthquake of 7.5 magnitude jolts the capital city, experts said at a worksh