Tag: Climate

Hot, humid conditions to persist in most parts of province

LAHORE: Mainly hot and dry weather will persist across Punjab including the provincial capital on Monday, according to the Met Office forecast. The maximum temperature...

Cities face dramatic rise in heat, flood risks by 2050, researchers...

CAPE TOWN: In the next 30 years, cities around the world will face dramatically higher risks from extreme heat, coastal flooding, power blackouts, and...

Climate affects development of human speech: study

ISLAMABAD: Finding a correlation between climate and the evolution of language, researchers said that languages with complex tones are much more likely to occur...

Experts for reducing greenhouse gas emission to zero level by 2050

ISLAMABAD: Agriculture experts and research scientists here on Sunday called for reducing the greenhouse gas emissions down to zero by 2050 in order to mitigate...

For global water crisis, climate may be the last straw

Before man-made climate change kicked in – and well before “Day Zero” in Cape Town, where taps may run dry in early May –...

Global water crisis: climate may be the last straw

CAPE TOWN: Before man-made climate change kicked in and well before 'Day Zero' in Cape Town, where taps may run dry in early May...

Study shows quarter of Earth’s land will be drier under 2...

PARIS: More than a quarter of Earth's land surface will become "significantly" drier even if humanity manages to limit global warming to two degrees...

Stella McCartney helps redesign climate-friendly fashion

LONDON: The fashion industry urgently needs to reform its wasteful, polluting ways, British designer Stella McCartney and record-breaking sailor Ellen MacArthur said on Tuesday. With...

Developing world says rich nations shirking on climate

The failure of wealthy nations to deliver on short-term climate commitments could hinder the rollout of a landmark treaty, a bloc of 134 developing...

Bonn talks to try to combat climate change, without Trump

OSLO: Governments will try to bolster a 2015 pact to combat climate change at annual talks in Germany from Monday strained by President Donald...

UN climate talks resume next week with anxious eyes on Trump

BONN: Nations that adopted the Paris Agreement with champagne two years ago, regroup next week amid grim omens of climate peril and with an...

Trump on ‘wrong side of history’ on climate: Ban Ki-moon

LONDON: US President Donald Trump is "standing on the wrong side of history" in withdrawing from the Paris climate accord, former UN chief Ban...

Weather to remain hot, humid across country

Hot and humid weather is expected in most parts of the country during the next twelve hours. However, rain-thunderstorm is likely at isolated places in...

Govt committed to environmental protection, assures minister

ISLAMABAD: Climate Change Minister Zahid Hamid, on Wednesday, assured full support to the Mountain Protected Areas Project’s management during the launching ceremony of the...

Climate, not just genetics, shaped your nose, study says

Though you undoubtedly inherited your distinctive nose from your parents, its shape was sculpted over time by adaptations to your ancestors' local climate, suggests...

UN climate deal signing gets the ball rolling

World leaders gather at the United Nations on Friday to sign the Paris climate deal and get the ball rolling on a quick entry...

World Bank warns climate change could add 100 million poor by...

Without the right policies to keep the poor safe from extreme weather and rising seas, climate change could drive over 100 million more people...