Pollution

FILE PHOTO: The Valero refinery next to the Houston Ship Channel is seen in Houston, Texas, U.S., May 5, 2019. REUTERS/Loren Elliott/File Photo
Environment

Texas freeze led to release of tons of air pollutants as refineries shut

Refiners and petrochemical plants along the US Gulf Coast scrambled to shut production as an arctic air mass spread into a region unused to frigid temperatures

Deadly diseases like the coronavirus would thrive in the polluted air. Photo: Saikat Bhadra
Environment

Air pollution caused 160,000 deaths in big cities last year: NGO

High-intensity approach lights at Los Angeles International Airport.
Health

Light pollution linked to preterm births, reduced birth weight: Study

A tribute to the dilapidating lake? Photo: Abir Abdullah
In Focus

The dire state of Dhanmondi Lake

An excavator stands in the midst of a municipal waste dumping ground at Halishahar Anandabazar Dumping Station of the Chattogram city. The Chattogram City Corporation collects 2,500 tonnes of wastes every day but dumping ground has been scarce. The photo was taken recently. Photo: Mohammad Minhaj Uddin
Bangladesh

Chattogram City burns its wastes, pollutes environment

Members of Delhi government anti-pollution squad report the status of the fire as smoke billows from burning garbage at the Ghazipur landfill site in New Delhi, India, November 25, 2020. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
South Asia

Pollution deaths in India rose to 1.67 million in 2019

Representational image. Photo: Collected
Thoughts

Covid-19 pandemic: Exacerbating plastic pollution catastrophe

Firefighters and excavators try to douse fire as smoke billows from burning garbage at the Ghazipur landfill site in New Delhi, India, November 25, 2020. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
South Asia

Delhi's toxic air a perennial crisis of its own making

Vaccine: Cold chain, pollution still a challenge
Covid-19 in Bangladesh

Vaccine: Cold chain, pollution still a challenge

Delhi briefly bans some construction to reduce deadly pollution
Environment

Delhi briefly bans some construction to reduce deadly pollution

A man prays on the banks of Yamuna river, on a smoggy morning in New Delhi, India, October 28, 2020. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis
South Asia

Pollution hangs over Indian capital as farm stubble fires rage

More than a million Chinese die from pollution-related causes annually. Photo: Bloomberg/Getty Images
Panorama

Why China could lose its war on pollution

The National Green Tribunal decision to form a panel to probe pollution caused by accidents of barges carrying fly ash to Bangladesh came floowing a petition by a fishermen’s union in West Bengal. Photo: Hindustan Times
South Asia

NGT panel of India to probe barge accidents on Indo-Bangla waterway causing fly ash pollution