Climate & Environment

Paris, June 15 (AFP/APP): Average global temperatures at the start of June were the warmest the European Union’s climate monitoring unit has ever recorded for the period, trouncing previous records by a “substantial margin”, it said on Thursday. The news comes as the El Nino […]

Mandvi, India, June 15 (AFP/APP): Howling gales and crashing waves pounded the coastline of India and Pakistan on Thursday, hours before the landfall of a powerful cyclone that has prompted mass evacuations. Nearly 150,000 people have fled the predicted path of Cyclone Biparjoy, which means […]

Islamabad, 14th June, 2023 (Online): The Senate Standing Committee on Climate Change, under the Chairpersonship of Senator Seemee Ezdi, visited the ‘Farash Town’ to observe the Water Filtration Projects installed and managed by World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) to cater the water needs of local community. […]

ISLAMABAD 14 June (Online): As Cyclone Biparjoy edges closer, Sindh’s coastline, authorities have speed up evacuations in the province including Keti Bundar, Thatta, Badin, Sujawal and Karachi considering them vulnerable to landfall of cyclone. Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) in latest updates gave cyclone distance of […]

Stockholm, June 14 (AFP/APP): Environment activists on Wednesday smeared red paint and glued their hands to the protective glass on a Monet painting at Stockholm’s National Museum, police and the museum said. “Two women around the ages of 25 and 30 were arrested,” police said, […]

BADIN, Jun 14 (APP): Tropical Cyclone ‘Biparjoy’ would likely hit the districts of Badin and Tharparkar. As per an alert issued by Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA), different areas of Badin have been declared dangerous. People living in unsafe areas of the coastal belt were […]

KARACHI, Jun 13 (APP): Pakistan Navy has put all its available resources at high alert with requisite assets to provide assistance to the inhabitants of coastal areas of Sindh in case of any emergency amid Tropical Cyclone BIPARJOY. The Pakistan Navy troops have evacuated 700 […]

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 13 (APP): The United Nations will help Pakistan and India in whatever way it can in dealing with the impacts of the approaching cyclone Biparjoy, a U.N. spokesman said on Tuesday. “I have had no doubt that our country teams both in […]

Washington, June 12 (AFP/APP): The first ever climate trial in the United States opened Monday in Montana, brought by young activists suing the state for violating their constitutional right to a “clean and healthful environment.” Held v. Montana is being closely watched as it could […]

ISLAMABAD, June 06 (Online): PDM government has decided to continue 10 billion tree Tsunami project in the budget for the financial year 2023-24. This project has now been given new name of Green Pakistan Program (GPP). According to media reports the project will cost over […]