Pollution

Lessons from the shutdown should be used for future air pollution control. Photo: Mumit M
Environment

Air quality of Dhaka: Lessons from Covid-19 shutdown

During the two-month shutdown, almost all the construction and repair works, transportation and industrial emissions remained halted, allowing the environment to be filled with fresh air

Photo: UNB
Environment

Pollution level in Dhaka improves, air quality turns ‘satisfactory’

Photo: UNB
Environment

Less air pollution means thousands fewer death

Photo: Nasa
Coronavirus chronicle

Coronavirus: Nasa images show China pollution clear amid slowdown

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Health

Leaden hearts

The Mathabhanga River has been badly polluted due to dumping of household waste and sewage by the Chuadanga Municipality. The unabated disposal of garbage on the riverbanks has also reduced the width and the navigability of the river. Photo: TBS
Environment

Sewage, trash polluting the Mathabhanga River

The 300-acre Hatirjheel lake was designed to retain rainwater flowing down from adjacent areas but it has ended up being a reservoir of sewage water. Photo: Saikat Bhadra/TBS
Environment

Why Hatirjheel is now a sewage pond

Air pollution in the streets of Dhaka. PHOTO: Saikat Bhadra/TBS
Court

HC orders DoE to run mobile courts to contain pollution

Contempt of court rule issued against Wasa managing director
Court

Contempt of court rule issued against Wasa managing director

People walk across a bridge at the Naviglio Pavese canal amidst dense fog and smog in Milan, Italy, January 8, 2020. Reuters/Flavio Lo Scalzo
World+Biz

Italy slaps curbs on cars as pollution chokes cities

Coal-fired power plants, like this one in Kosovo, contribute to rising levels of global carbon pollution
Climate Change

5 reasons why the Earth’s carbon pollution is still rising

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Science

Manmade noise a ‘major global pollutant’

Photo: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg
Climate Change

Global pollution is rising again and won’t peak before 2040