Tag: Climate change
Hurricanes, heat waves, fires ravaged planet in 2017
Fierce hurricanes, heat waves, floods and wildfires ravaged the planet in 2017, as scientists said the role of climate change in causing or worsening...
‘Comprehensive policy’ needed to tackle climate change: report
QUETTA: Balochistan Governor Muhammad Khan Achakzai said on Tuesday said that Pakistan needs an immediate policy to save environment from the negative impact of...
Building new water storages essential for fighting climate change: Sartaj
Planning Commission Deputy Chairman, Sartaj Aziz, while addressing to the 4th international water conference at the Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR),...
Pakistan committed to tackling issue of climate change, says PM
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Monday said Pakistan remains committed to playing its role in global efforts for tackling the issue of...
Experts, academics, policymakers stress measures to tackle climate change
LAHORE: Oxfam in Pakistan and the Indus Consortium on Wednesday organised a “Grow Festival” to launch the Climate Public Expenditure Review (CPER) in Lahore.
Over 4,000...
Economists advise to stop investing in fossil fuels to save climate
PARIS: The development of oil, gas, and coal energy must stop in order to avoid the worst ravages of global warming, 80 top economists...
Pakistan’s first national wildlife policy to be formulated: Mushahidullah Khan
ISLAMABAD: Climate Change Federal Minister, Senator Mushahidullah Khan on Thursday instructed the Ministry of Climate Change (MoCC) Forest and Wildlife Department to formulate the...
NASA’s map of Earth’s seasons over 20 years highlights impact of...
NASA has captured 20 years of changing seasons in a striking new global map of planet Earth.
The data visualization, released this week, shows Earth’s...
World to witness positive action on climate change: ex-UN climate chief
LONDON: In the next five to 10 years, the world will see an ‘explosion’ of positive action on climate change, not only in terms of...
Statistically smog kills more people in Pakistan than militancy
ISLAMABAD: The toxic smog that has covered parts of the country for weeks has exposed official torpor over rampant pollution that has killed thousands of more...
Global 2% rise in CO2 ‘giant leap backwards for humankind’
BONN: The carbon dioxide emissions that drive global warming, flat since 2014, are set to rise two percent this year, dashing hopes they had...
Smog-related accidents leave two dead, dozens injured
LAHORE: Smog has taken the lives of at least two people while injuring dozens of others in the last 24 hours in the Kasur.
Traffic around...
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...
Smog has become Lahore’s ‘fifth season’: report
LAHORE: While Delhi’s air quality has generated headlines worldwide in recent days, experts say the air in Lahore rivals the Indian capital’s for toxicity, reports The...
Chad faces looming disaster in shape of climate change
DOSSEYE: Chad, a country already beset by economic and humanitarian crises, faces another looming disaster: climate change. It was ranked as the country most vulnerable...
Sri Lanka’s farmers migrate to cities due to climate change-fueled drought
COLOMBO: When Siri Hettige, a sociology professor at Colombo University, conducts surveys of young people across Sri Lanka, he never fails to ask one key...
Smog continues to wreak havoc in Punjab
Lahore: People of Punjab face severe health and visibility problems as smog continues to cover parts of the province, including Lahore.
Visibility has plunged to 25 -50...
