As mosquitoes spread dengue and chikungunya, Bangladeshi cleanup crews are taking public health into their own hands.

Their few belongings packed into rice sacks, Momena Begum and her husband Mohammad Harez squat on a damp plot of sand just above the waterline, waiting to move out. Almost surrounded by a chest-deep ...

Stepping along a narrow, winding pathway formed by sandbags reinforced by cement, Anwar, a 25-year-old father of two, points out areas of land around Chakmarkul refugee settlement where monsoon rains ...

Air pollution — especially from transboundary dust and sulfate particles — is intensifying lightning activity in Bangladesh, particularly during the pre-monsoon season. Studies show that these ...

Dhaka has long struggled with air pollution. Air quality usually deteriorates in winter and improves during the monsoon season.

A landslide triggered by heavy rain killed a three-year-old Rohingya refugee in Bangladesh, police said Monday, the first casualty of the monsoon as wild storms wreak havoc in the crowded camps. The ...

Dhaka, Jan. 27 -- Dhaka, the densely populated capital of Bangladesh, ranked third among the world's most polluted cities on Monday morning, recording an Air Quality Index (AQI) of 225 at 9:03 am.

It is a cloudy, humid September morning near the end of monsoon season in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh and one of the ...