Climate & Environment

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 […]

Beijing, Apr 10 (SPA/APP): China’s national observatory on Sunday renewed a blue alert for sandstorms. Floating sand particles and dust will sweep across parts of Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin, Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning from 8 p.m. Sunday to […]

ANTARCTICA, April 8 (AA/APP) —: Turkish scientists who went to Antarctica have observed an emperor penguin chick for the first time on Horseshoe Island. Scientists who spoke to Anadolu on Friday went to the “continent of science and peace” to carry out glacial observations as […]

Sydney, March 30 (AFP/APP): Breakthrough climate laws passed by Australia on Thursday will target the nation’s worst polluters, forcing coal mines and oil refineries to curb emissions by about five percent each year. Experts said the laws signalled the end of Australia’s bitter “climate wars” […]