Climate & Environment

UNITED NATIONS, Apr 22 (APP): ):Marking International Mother Earth Day, UN General Assembly President Abdulla Shahid Friday urged collective action to safeguard biodiversity and protect ecosystems so that human health and well-being are not endangered. “We are wreaking havoc on our own home – the […]

ISLAMABAD, April 22 (Online): World Earth Day was observed on Friday. This year the theme of the day is Invest in Our Planet. Earth Day is a global event that works to encourage and raise awareness of climate change and environment protection. The event was […]

BAHAWALPUR, Apr 19 (APP): Commissioner Capt (retd) Muhammad Zafar Iqbal on Tuesday said that new industrial units should be constructed along with environment-friendly measures including extensive tree planting to solve the problems of environmental pollution. While addressing the meeting of the Environment Committee, the commissioner […]

ISLAMABAD, Apr 19 (APP):The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN-Pakistan) on Tuesday celebrated the appointment of Pakistan’s youngest athlete Mahnoor Saleh as the Youth Ambassador for Environment in Gilgit Baltistan, recognising her efforts to break the taboos and become a professional female winter sports […]

Lahore, April 18, 2022 (Online): Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC) is working to provide the citizens of Lahore with an environment-friendly and sustainable waste management system through its extensive operations and community mobilization program. LWMC believes in imparting awareness among the masses and taking them […]

ISLAMABAD, Apr 16 (APP):The Gilgit Baltistan Disaster Management Authority (GBDMA) has beefed up preparedness measures in the wake of looming glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) threat due to rising temperatures amid heatwaves. The GBDMA officials confirmed that there was less impact of the prevailing heatwave […]

  PESHAWAR, Apr 07 (APP): Peshawar Clean Air Alliance, group of civil society activists formed to launch ways and measures to tackle toxic emission that pose direct threat to health and contribute to climate change, plans to launch a groundbreaking document, Status of Air Pollution […]

San Felipe, Mexico, April 5 (AFP/APP): Mexican naval vessels, spotter planes and conservationists are patrolling the upper Gulf of California in a race against time to save the world’s rarest marine mammal from extinction. Mexico’s navy and the environmental organization Sea Shepherd are working together […]

KARACHI, Apr 04 (APP): As many as 40 more three wheeler hydraulic system rickshaws have been added to further improve the arrangements for door-to-door garbage collection in district East here. The initiative is taken on the directives of Managing Director Sindh Solid Waste Management Board […]

PESHAWAR, Apr 03 (APP):District Administration along with Khyber Department of Environment and Industry officials sealed 07 steel factories in Jamrud for joint operation against steel and rolling mills, causing environmental pollution and violating code of conduct. Under the supervision of Assistant Commissioner Jamrud, Shakeel Ahmed, […]