Tag: Climate change
Five-year period ending 2019 set to be hottest on record: UN...
Average global temperature between 2015-2019 is on track to be the hottest of any five-year period on record, a United Nations report by the...
Environmentalists, activists gear up for nationwide ‘Climate March’
ISLAMABAD: Environmentalists and activists across the country have joined hands to hold the first nationwide ‘Climate March’ on September 20 to highlight urgency of...
Heavy rain leaves scores dead in Nepal, India, Bangladesh
Flooding and landslides triggered by heavy rainfall have killed at least 50 people in Nepal in the past few days, with more deaths reported...
Rising heat stress could cost 80m jobs by 2030: UN
LONDON: Rising heat due to climate change could lead to the loss of 80 million jobs by 2030, with poor countries worst hit, the...
Rs7.5bn allocated for climate change
ISLAMABAD: The federal government has allocated an amount of Rs7579.200 million for various new and ongoing schemes of the Climate Change Division under the Public...
Climate change killing off Bering Sea puffins, say scientists
BERING ISLAND: When an unusually large number of puffin carcasses began to wash ashore on Alaska's remote St Paul Island in the fall of...
Indigenous Australians take government to UN over climate change
CANBERRA: Indigenous residents of low-lying islands off northern Australia will submit a landmark complaint with the United Nations on Monday accusing the government of...
UK government urged to focus aid money on climate change
LONDON: Britain must overhaul its aid strategy and focus on climate change if it wants to have a meaningful impact, a cross-party committee of lawmakers...
Earth headed to another major ‘mass extinction’?
MANHATTAN: Whether humanity has pushed the planet into a "mass extinction" event may be a matter of definition, but by any measure, the rate...
Pakistan’s water demand likely to grow by 40% in 30 years
--World Bank report says water demand won't be sustainable, even by groundwater pumping
KARACHI: Water demand in Pakistan is projected to grow by at least 40...
Women-headed household more climate change resilient: Muthukumara Mani
ISLAMABAD: World Bank South Asia Region Lead Economist Muthukumara Mani Thursday in his research based on climate scenarios and projected changes in temperature and precipitation...
‘Worse than Voldemort’: Global students’ strike targets climate change
SYDNEY/LONDON: Tens of thousands of school students around the world walked out of classes on Friday in a global strike to protest against government...
Climate change pushing killer whales to migrate north
OSLO: Paying no attention to nearby divers, a killer whale and her calf hunting for food frolic in a snowy Norwegian fjord.
Their favourite meal,...
South Australia heatwave smashes record temperatures
CANBERRA: Temperatures in southern Australia topped 49 degrees on Thursday, shattering previous records as sizzling citizens received free beer and heat-stressed bats fell from...
We are ‘losing race’ on climate change, warns UN chief
The world is "losing the race" against climate change, United Nations chief Antonio Guterres warned on Thursday at the elite Davos forum, demanding bolder...
EU ambassador, IUCN country representative, PM’s climate change advisor discuss environmental...
ISLAMABAD: European Union (EU) Ambassador to Pakistan Jean-Francois Cautaian and IUCN Country Representative Mahmood Akhtar Cheema called on the Prime Minister's (PM) Advisor on...
World to miss 2020 climate ‘turning point’: analysis
PARIS: The world is on course to miss its "best chance" of preventing runaway climate change by ensuring global greenhouse gas emissions peak in...
