Tag: Monitoring

The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has set up a National Emergency Operation Centre (NEOC) (Flood Monitoring Centre) to collect round-the-clock information and avoid...

Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has established the highest glacier monitoring station (GMS) on the top of Passu and Batura glaciers, which will record ground...

The Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) on Saturday completed the project “Live Environmental Monitoring Website” with Punjab Environment Protection Department (EPD)’s financial support...

OSLO: Ocean scientists urged governments on Sunday to invest billions of dollars by 2015 in a new system to monitor the seas and give alerts of everything from tsunamis to acidification linked to climate change.
They said better oversight would have huge economic benefits, helping to understand the impact of over-fishing or shifts in monsoons that can bring extreme weather such as the 2010 floods in Pakistan. A scientific alliance, Oceans United, would present the plea to

KARACHI: Even though Pakistan is a signatory to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), and various other international protocols on environment protection e.g. UNCLOS, RAMSAR, MARPOL, the ballast water of ships, which is the main source of dispersal of different invasive marine animals around the globe, is not being monitored at the country's ports and poses a great threat to the coastal ecosystem.
Karachi port handles over 2.5 million tons of liquid and dry cargo,

The fearless vendors in the Sunday bazaars, in the absence of price magistrates, officials from the City District Government Lahore (CDGL), livestock and food departments and the market committees, openly charged exorbitant prices for fruits and vegetables. Overall escalating trend in the prices of fruits and vegetables was registered this week as compared to the last week at the Sunday bazaars of the city.
Visitors were of the view that this hectic exercise of placing these