Md. Amzad Hossain, an assistant professor of economics at the U of A, and two colleagues studied the environmental, socio-economic and health effects of moving Bangladesh's tanneries.

Today is Thursday, Jan. 23, the 23rd day of 2025. There are 342 days left in the year. Today in history: On Jan. 23, 1870, approximately 200 Piegan Blackfoot tribe members, mostly women, children ...

Observing tanneries were among "the most polluting industries", the top court said the damage caused by them by discharging untreated or partially treated effluents into the River Palar and ...

From 8:00am to 12:30pm on Saturday, tannery workers gathered outside various factories in the BSCIC Leather Industrial City, ...

Many tanneries are throwing their chrome-containing effluents into Rohi Nullah, which passes across the city and takes all the sewage and wastewater of the whole population to Pandoki drain.