Climate & Environment

Taipei, June 2 (AFP/APP): Hacking at a bamboo plant with a machete, Avayi Vayayana peels back the shoot’s stiff bark as he scans southern Taiwan’s mountains, anxious for more of the money-making crop his Indigenous tribe increasingly struggles to find. Generations of the Tsou tribe […]

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 02 (APP): The world must beat the “toxic tidal wave” of plastic pollution that threatens human rights, UN experts said Friday, and called for putting rights at the centre of the international treaty on plastic pollution currently under negotiation. The appeal comes […]

Geneva, June 1 (AFP/APP): The World Meteorological Organization voted in Argentina’s Celeste Saulo on Thursday to become its first woman leader and steer the WMO’s critical global role in tracking climate change. Saulo, a WMO vice president who has headed Argentina’s weather agency since 2014, […]

ISLAMABAD 30 May (Online): Pakistan and Italy have agreed to set up a joint framework to tackle climate change and cooperation in water management. The agreement was reached at the 5th meeting of the ‘Pakistan-Italy Joint Economic Commission’ at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs […]

ISLAMABAD, May 29 (APP): Two environmental samples collected from Peshawar district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province have tested positive for wild poliovirus. The Pakistan Polio Laboratory at the National Institute of Health (NIH) has confirmed that wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) has been found in sewage […]

UNITED NATIONS, May 27 (APP):The United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicts “near-normal hurricane activity” in the Atlantic this coming storm season, the UN weather agency said Friday, forecasting between five and nine major storms that could become hurricanes. The US National Hurricane […]

KARACHI, May 19 (APP):The Sindh Education Foundation (SEF) and the Research Development Foundation (RDF) have signed a Letter of Understanding (LoU) to promote environmental education foundation assisted schools at a local hotel here Friday. The LoU was signed between Mukhtiar Ali,Deputy Director Programs at SEF […]

Islamabad, May 17 (Online): The Provincial Government of Punjab and Food & Agriculture Organization of United Nations (FAO) have signed, on Tuesday May 16, 2023, a Unilateral Trust Funds (UTF) agreement for the co-financial contribution from the Punjab government to a Green Climate Fund project […]

Geneva, May 17 (AFP/APP): It is near-certain that 2023-2027 will be the warmest five-year period ever recorded, the United Nations warned Wednesday as greenhouse gases and El Nino combine to send temperatures soaring. Global temperatures are soon set to exceed the more ambitious target set […]

UNITED NATIONS, May 16 (APP): Plastic pollution could be slashed by 80 per cent by 2040 if countries and companies use existing technologies to make significant policy shifts and market adjustments, according to a UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report released Tuesday. “The way we produce, […]