Climate & Environment

MULTAN, May 14 (APP): Different weather phenomena, untimely rains are creating worrisome situations for farmers and agriculturists to deal with, especially in a country like Pakistan where majority lives in rural areas and agriculture being their only way to earn bread and butter. Working hard […]

BEIJING, May 10 (APP): Chinese Environmental Technology Company, Zhongke Runlan Environmental Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., in collaboration with international organizations, has donated reverse osmosis (RO) water treatment equipment to Islamabad Model College for Girls to address the school’s water quality challenges. Last month, a team […]

Hanoi, May 7 (AFP/APP): Vietnam has reported a record-high temperature, with climate experts warning such extreme weather events would continue. The country’s scientists have warned that global warming is exacerbating adverse weather, with the region sweltering under a heatwave in April — when neighbouring countries […]

SIALKOT, May 05 (APP): Deputy Commissioner Sialkot Adnan Mehmood Awan has said that according to the policy and guidelines of the Punjab government, the district administration is taking practical measures to control environmental problems in the city. He expressed these views at a workshop on […]

Buriticupu, Brazil, May 4 (AFP/APP): A few steps from a cliff edge, Deusimar Batista is hanging clothes to dry in her yard. Near it, a neighbor’s house used to stand on a residential street, but they have all collapsed into the abyss. Batista is from […]

ANTARCTICA – MAY 3 (AA/APP):UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called on governments to keep their pledge and act against climate change. “The International Panel on Climate Change tells us that breaching 1.5 degrees, even temporarily, could be disastrous,” he told the Petersberg Climate Dialogue […]

Madrid, April 28 (AFP/APP): Mainland Spain and Portugal have broken temperature records for April, officials said on Friday, as both nations wilt in an unusually early heatwave that has raised the risk of wildfires. The mercury hit 38.8 degrees Celsius (101.8 degrees Fahrenheit) in the […]

UNITED NATIONS, Apr 21 (APP):Floods, droughts and record low ice levels – from the top of the world’s mountains to the depths of the ocean, the climate crisis took a heavy toll as it continued to intensify in 2022, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a […]

BEIJING, Apr.20 (APP): The research institutes in Pakistan and China are working together on the reuse of organic waste in Pakistan. “We aim to install the first pilot scale project on campus, utilizing the campus food waste”, Dr. Farrukh Raza Amin, Assistant Professor at Department […]

LAHORE, April 20 (Online): Lahore High Court (LHC) has ordered to take action against the persons involved in chopping trees in private housing schemes. The case pertaining to eradication of smog came up for hearing before LHC Thursday. The petitioner Azhar Siddique appeared before the […]