The Department of Environment (DoE) fined two brick kilns in Narayanganj Bandar area Tk 15 lakh for harming the environment through using farmland topsoil to establish brick kilns.

Dust pollution in Dhaka air remains above the danger level one-third of the year, said minister for environment Hasan Mahmud in parliament, attributing it to open-air construction works and road di

No traditional brick kiln will be allowed to operate after September this year as they cause huge environment pollution by emitting carbon, Environment and Forests Minister Hasan Mahmud told parlia

Several hundred acres of cultivable land in the district loses fertility every year as brick kilns are collecting huge quantities of earth from the topsoil of agricultural lands for making bricks.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide $ 50 million in loan to help improve the environment by financing more energy-efficient brick kilns in Bangladesh.

Not even 25 per cent of the brick kilns in the Kathmandu Valley are environment-friendly, pointed out the participants in a programme in the capital on Thursday.

Nothing could stop the operation of a brick kiln that has been flouting environmental laws, causing air pollution and affecting farmlands for over two years.

The Department of Environment (DoE) has fined Tk 25 lakh to the owners of eight brickfields at Gurudaspur in Natore for burning woods illegally and damaging farmland.

The Department of Environment (DoE), in a drive, yesterday destroyed two illegal brick kilns with drum chimneys at Nangolkot upazila in Comilla.

The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined the owners of five brickfields Tk 5.5 lakh in Munshiganj and removed two brickfields in Narial for violating the environmental laws and using dru