Climate & Environment

Dehradun, India, Jan 8 (AFP/APP):Authorities in one of the holiest towns in the Indian Himalayas were evacuating panicked residents Sunday after hundreds of houses began developing yawning cracks and sinking, officials said. The cause of the apparent subsidence in Joshimath in the northern state of […]

ISLAMABAD, Jan 5 (APP): President Dr. Arif Alvi Thursday expressed hope that the Geneva Conference to be held on January 9, would be a step forward in helping Pakistan become a climate-resilient country. Talking during an overview of Aiwan-e-Sadr for the year 2022, he said […]

Islamabad, Jan 4 (Online): Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will co-host, along with United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, the International Conference on Climate Resilient Pakistan in Geneva on 9 January 2023. The Conference will serve as a platform to marshal international support for the people […]

London, Jan 1 (AFP/APP):Environmental group Extinction Rebellion said Sunday it would no longer stage its infamous blockades of UK transport networks and will instead hold a major demonstration against government policy in April. The activist network, formed in the UK in 2018, has regularly used […]

London, Dec 28 (AFP/APP):British experts on Wednesday said 2022 was set to be the UK’s warmest on record after a year of heatwaves and minimal rainfall. The findings come as communities across the globe reel from a catalogue of extreme weather this year including soaring […]

PESHAWAR, Dec 27 (APP): International community is urged to take destruction and damages caused by disastrous flooding in Pakistan as a test case and initiate practical measures to build long-term and robust resilience in a manner that we do not have to meet emergencies again […]

Washington, Dec 19 (AFP/APP): The United States on Monday hailed a deal reached at biodiversity talks in Montreal as a “turning point” and voiced appreciation for the role of frequent adversary China. “The global biodiversity framework is the turning point we think we need to […]

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 19 (APP): Pakistan needs “strong” support from the international community to deal with the vast devastation left behind by the unprecedented floods in August, pointing out that three times the area of his country — Portugal — was under water, UN Secretary-General […]

ISLAMABAD, Dec 15 (APP): The experts at a webinar on Thursday said the government efforts without public support to contain smog and air pollution crisis were futile as the challenge was immense requiring stakeholder intervention to address the issue leaving millions of people’s health and […]

Paris, Dec 14 (AFP/APP):A mysterious surge in planet-heating atmospheric methane in 2020 despite Covid lockdowns that reduced many human-caused sources can be explained by a greater release from nature and, surprisingly, reduced air pollution, scientists said Wednesday. Methane stays in the atmosphere only a fraction […]