Climate & Environment

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, […]

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 […]