Rashedul and I watch as they start tearing out handfuls of invasive water hyacinth and filling sacks with discarded plastic ...

When a river becomes a legal subject, it can challenge harmful development, pollution, and degradation—forcing humans to respect its interests.

Under a bridge on a branch of the Buriganga River in Bangladesh ... of a good intention—the intention to end ocean plastic pollution. In that way it’s less like the Paris Agreement and ...

The Buriganga ... pollution. In areas like Hazaribagh and Savar in Dhaka, leather processing releases highly toxic substances, including chromium, sulphides, and acids, directly into the Buriganga ...