Climate & Environment

Rome, July 16 (AFP/APP): Scorching weather gripped three continents on Sunday, whipping up wildfires and threatening to topple temperature records as the dire consequences of global warming take shape. Predictions of historic heat hung over swathes of Asia, Europe and the United States. In the […]

Washington, July 14 (AFP/APP):Summer has just begun in the Northern Hemisphere but a brutal heat wave is already gripping parts of Europe, China and the United States, where record temperatures expected this weekend are a stark illustration of the dangers of a warming climate. Extreme […]

Islamabad: July, 12, 2023 (Online): The National Assembly Standing Committee on Climate Change and Environmental Coordination met today at Parliament House Islamabad under the Chairpersonship of Ms. Nuzhat Pathan, MNA. The Standing Committee on Climate Change and Environmental Coordination took notice of the issue of […]

Geneva, June 18 (AFP/APP): The Swiss, feeling the impact of global warming on their rapidly melting glaciers, were voting on Sunday on a new climate bill aimed at steering the country towards carbon neutrality by 2050. Recent opinion polls indicate strong support for the proposed […]

ISLAMABAD 16 June (Online): Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari says Pakistan People’s Party is committed to upholding and protecting human rights. Addressing the ceremony in Islamabad today, he said PPP’s core philosophy revolves around the protection of fundamental human rights. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said there […]

Islamabad, 15th June, 2023 (Online): Minister for Development Cooperation and Global Climate Policy of Denmark, Mr. Dan Jørgensen met with Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari in the Foreign Office today. Mr. Dan Jørgensen is in Islamabad on a two-day official visit to Pakistan. The two […]

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 […]