Dust pollution

Thoughts

Battling the dust in Dhaka City

Dhaka grapples with pervasive dust pollution, impacting both its environment and economy. Public health and city economy suffer in the city shrouded in haze

Environment

Dust in the wind: Dhaka dwellers choke as authorities fail to act

Bangladesh

Experts seek winter plan to fight Dhaka’s air pollution

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

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

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

Environment

Less air pollution means thousands fewer death

Environment