EnvironmentOxfam in Bangladesh and Australia's Curtin University launched the Urban Climate and Disaster Risk Reduction Hub in Dhaka on 2 July 2025, to tackle urban heat, pollution and flood risk through research, advocacy and community-led innovation.
World Environment Day is observed on 5 June under the theme of ending plastic pollution, though Bangladesh will hold its state celebration on 25 June.
As plastic and polythene pollution damages rivers, fish and farmland in Barguna's Patharghata, local man Shafikul Islam Khokon is campaigning to get people to give up plastic.
Environment adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan said planting trees on road dividers can reduce dust pollution, as already seen around the Padma Bridge.
A columnist argues that citizens share responsibility for easing load-shedding and for tackling the longer-term climate crisis behind rising temperatures.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged people to plant trees to protect Bangladesh from the adverse effects of climate change.
The Philippines has passed a law requiring every student to plant at least ten trees before graduating.
Experts and studies warn that unregulated antibiotic use in Bangladesh's poultry, cattle and fish is breeding resistant germs that reach people through food and the environment.
A study by Chinese scientists found that people living in polluted air lose much of their ability to acquire knowledge, with older people hit hardest.
A round-up of world news from 2 September 2021, from a new garment safety accord and Bangladesh's air pollution toll to deadly US floods and a rare elephant birth.
A new study finds outdoor air pollution shortens average life expectancy by nearly three years, more than smoking does.
A study in Bangladesh has found that the country's young people are the most responsible for environmentally harmful plastic pollution.
A Lancet study says pollution killed 9 million people worldwide in 2015, with Bangladesh recording the highest rate of pollution-related deaths.
