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By EurActiv EurActiv — African nations have called for continent-wide action to staunch the import of electronic waste, including old computers and mobile telephones from Europe where stringent environmental laws make exporting used goods cheaper than disposing of them at…

Researchers have reported the first case of human-to-human transmission of the new strain of bird flu that has emerged in China.

Embattled Fukushima operator Tepco has been accused of a “weak sense of crisis”, as its failing battle to prevent radioactive water from seeping into the seawater near the plant has become an “emergency”, according to the country’s nuclear watchdog.

Reporters Without Borders condemned Monday the Sri Lanka army’s use of violence on 1 August against journalists covering demonstrations by residents of the western town of Weliweriya to call for the closure of a factory accused of polluting local water…

By Kim-Jenna Jurriaans

By Navin Singh Khadka

By Helen Briggs

Being able to live a clean, active and healthy life should be a basic human right. Yet, this is not a privilege that everyone has — a point underscored by two high level reports.

Rice tainted with high levels of arsenic has been linked to genetic damage that heightens the risk of cancer, a study published on Monday said.

Green activists here on Friday demanded the government take effective steps to ensure marketing of safe iftar items and fruits in the holy month of Ramadan to protect people from serious health hazards.

Washington, DC – World population reached 7.2 billion in mid-2013, according to United Nations demographers, with present and projected future growth propelled in part by unexpectedly high fertility in a number of developing countries.

A recent report by the Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused tanneries in Bangladesh of’ ‘systemic human rights violations’ putting on dock an industry that has emerged as a major supplier of leather for footwear and suitcases, belts and bags…

Some peddlers and dishonest people have been selling spurious cosmetics to passengers at bus terminals in Sylhet. However, this section is making money by fooling the passengers and contrinuting their business allegedly by collaborating with on duty law enforcers.

Military planes water-bombed Indonesian forest fires that worsened on Friday and blanketed neighbouring Singapore in record levels of hazardous smog for a third straight day in one of Southeast Asia’s worst air-pollution crises.

High traces of toxic Cadmium has been found in rice produced in Bangladesh raising serious public health concerns, experts say. Bangladesh has topped the list of 12 countries where high concentrations of Cadmium was found in rice samples during a…

Amid the mounting pressure of  population on the sprawling Dhaka city, experts have said it is not mega structures but decentralisation can help solve the city’s growing problems.

Brick kilns set up on agricultural lands at two villages in sadar upazila of the district are causing extensive damage to paddy.

A mobile court in sadar upazila of the district on Saturday destroyed 4,500 kilograms of mango tainted with carbide and fined its owner Tk20,000.

A mobile court of Department of Environment (DoE) on Monday fined a textile factory named Ring Shine Textile Limited Tk 38 lakh and 40 thousand for polluting environment by releasing toxic bilge water into nearby water land in Jirabo of…

A local leader of Brickfield Owners’ Association has built a brick kiln on an arable land, also within half a kilometre from seven educational institutions at Puratan Thakurgaon village under Thakurgaon Sadar upazila, defying law and ignoring protest from the…

Bangladesh on Sunday confirmed its first bird flu-related death in five years after the H5N1 human infection was detected in the country.

The European Parliament’s Environment Committee voted on Tuesday 26 March on a report on ship recycling regulation.

Lead is added to paint mainly to speed up drying and increase durability, but due to its toxic effects has been banned in many countries. Nonetheless, lead-based paint still poses a problem as older housing stock may contain lead-based painted…

EU governments failed to agree a ban on three widely used pesticides linked to the decline of honeybees on Friday, but the European Commission could force one through by the summer unless member states agree a compromise.

Washington – Fruit bats in Bangladesh are harbouring a new version of Ebola virus, which causes severe hemorrhagic fever, a fatal condition afflicting humans and primates, says a new finding.