Only 6.4 per cent and eight per cent of Scheduled Tribe and Scheduled Caste households are using clean fuel in rural parts.

A report by the International Institute of Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, shows that the per capita emission of carbon dioxide by urban households is a shocking 16 times more than rural households. Experts say as households become richer, they consume more energy, leading to more carbon dioxide emission.

A little-known technology that may be able to take the equivalent of China's greenhouse gas emissions out of the carbon cycle could be the radical policy shift needed to slow climate change this ce

One in eight deaths from pollution are attributed to fuel burned indoors for cooking—a common practice in the developing world.

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A mobile court, led by executive magistrate Maruful Alam, fined six brick fields Tk 3.45 lakh at Kalapara upazila during a daylong drive on Tuesday.

The owners of around 150 brickfields in Bogra district are defying environment laws as they have been polluting environment burning firewood illegally in their kilns.

To stop the destruction of forests and increase its green cover to 33% as laid down in the national policy, the state forests department has launched a campaign to rope in villagers to voluntarily