Climate & Environment

Beijing, Sept 6 (AFP/APP):China has logged its hottest August since records began, state media reported Tuesday, following an unusually intense summer heat wave that parched rivers, scorched crops and triggered isolated blackouts. Southern China last month sweltered under what experts said may have been one […]

Islamabad, September 05 (ONLINE) “We need to take preemptive measures to control global warming, universities and academia should step forward to play a role and give suggestions to the policy makers based on research,” said the Speaker National Assembly, Raja Pervaiz Ashraf at the inaugural […]

KARACHI, Sep 04 (APP): Special Assistant to Sindh Chief Minister on Human Rights Surendar Valasai has urged the international human rights organizations to echo the demand of Pakistani Foreign Minister for climate justice and ensure that the impact and redressal of climatic disasters are justifiably […]

ISLAMABAD, Sep 03 (Online): Chairman NDMA Lieutenant General Akhtar Nawaz has said the floods have so far killed 1265 people have been killed and more than 1200 injured in the floods so far. He said this during a briefing to media persons at National Flood […]

LAHORE, Sep 02 (APP): Punjab Forest & Wildlife Minister Syed Abbas Ali Shah on Friday said that assessment of forests losses inflicted by the floods was underway. Talking to media persons, the minister said that measures were being taken to assess the losses caused by […]

Sukkur, Pakistan, Aug 30 (AFP/APP):Aid efforts ramped up across flooded Pakistan on Tuesday to help tens of millions of people affected by relentless monsoon rains that have submerged a third of the country and claimed more than 1,100 lives. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called the […]

ISLAMABAD 30 Aug (Online): Federal Minsiter for development and planning Ahsen Iqbal said on Tuesday that Pakistan needs $10 billion for renovation and restructuring of flood damaged infrastructure. World ought to help Pakistan to deal climate change effects, he added. Talking to the foreign news […]

Paris, Aug 30 (AFP/APP):The cost-of-living crisis pushing millions of people towards poverty in Europe is driven by fossil fuels, according to a leading Earth systems scientist, who has warned that global heating risks causing runaway climate change. Johan Rockstrom, director of the Potsdam Institute for […]

United Nations, United States, Aug 26 (AFP/APP): A two-week negotiating session on a treaty to protect the high seas wraps up Friday, but UN observers were holding their breath with many points remaining contentious between member states. After 15 years, including four prior formal sessions, […]

London, Aug 24 (AFP/APP): Searing summer temperatures in the UK have not just parched the earth and dried up rivers, lakes and reservoirs but are also seeing trees shed their leaves early. Instead of green, many gardens, parks and woods are now a sea of […]