Dhaka-23 November 2015: Greater Dhaka needs climate-smart policies and higher investment to improve its resilience to intense rainfall and to prepare for climate change, says a new World Bank book ...

With more than 50,000 people living per square kilometre, over 500,000 buildings, a population of nearly two crore, chronic air pollution topping global charts, and waterlogging after light rain, ...

We are what we breathe. Now imagine that breath—something we do without thinking—could be quietly slashing years of our lives. That's no idle fear: air pollution claimed 8.1 million lives in 2021 ...

Once regulated by strict rules, Dhaka's urban landscape has undergone a radical transformation over the last two decades, driven by the gradual relaxation of regulations, aggressive increases in floor ...

GlobalPost's Erik German and Solana Pine look at the coming dystopia that is urbanization. In the five-part, the authors look at Dhaka, Bangladesh, which by 2025 the U.N. predicts will be home to more ...