Tag: Pollution
What do country’s cities have in common? Bad air
The University of Karachi (KU) organised a workshop on air pollution modeling, the varsity said in a statement issued on Tuesday.
The four-day moot was...
It’s getting too loud in here!
Noise pollution in the capital metropolis has jumped up to 35 percent causing serious hazards to human health, especially to school-going children, due to...
Noise pollution reaches alarming level
The problem of noise pollution in Rawalpindi is aggravating day by day as traffic rush and lack of management on the part of the...
Govt officials taught a thing or two about saving environment
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), under its Indus for All Programme, organised a two-day training workshop on environmental indicators.
The workshop aimed at...
Polluters will not be spared: commissioner
The city’s new administration is striving to bring an end to the menace of pollution, littering, profiteering and encroachment, Karachi Commissioner Roshan Ali Shaikh...
Kyoto pollution curbs may lapse on UN deadlock
Pollution limits in the only treaty curbing greenhouse gases may lapse at the end of next year because of a rift between richer countries...
Strict action against pollution stressed
Deliberating on existing status along with health and environmental impacts of chemically-polluted sites in the country, experts and representatives of national and provincial environmental...
Driving over Miss Daisy
The common man and small business are inextricably linked. Though the government has become adept at glorifying the opportunities for grassroots oriented economic growth,...
EPA’s pollution monitoring system dysfunctional
Online pollution monitoring system of Environment Protection Agency (EPA), responsible for monitoring air pollution of the capital, has become dysfunctional due to non-release of...
Industrial pollution makes citizens’ life hell
Contrary to the Capital Development Authority (CDA) by-laws, elimination of the buffer zone between the industrial and residential areas in sectors I-9 and I-10...
Industrial pollution makes citizens’ life miserable
Contrary to the Capital Development Authority (CDA) by-laws, elimination of the buffer zone between the industrial and residential areas in sectors I-9 and I-10...
‘Steps on to check smoke pollution’
ISLAMABAD - Federal Environment Minister Hameed Ullah Jan Afridi on Monday said alternate sources of energies were being encouraged to promote the use of clean fuel in all kinds of automobiles.
"These measures will also help conserve energy and minimize hazardous smoke," he said, while talking to media people. He revealed the government had introduced a project of CNG buses in all the provinces and attractive incentives had also been offered to transporters to convert their
"These measures will also help conserve energy and minimize hazardous smoke," he said, while talking to media people. He revealed the government had introduced a project of CNG buses in all the provinces and attractive incentives had also been offered to transporters to convert their
Islamabad and Pindi’s roads congested, pollution on the rise
ISLAMABAD: Ill-planning by the Capital Development Authority (CDA) and an increased number of vehicles is leading to the congestion of road space in Islamabad and Rawalpindi, along with posing a threat to the environment, a report by Pakistan Today revealed.
"The authorities are not making the public transport system efficient and are busy making tall and empty claims," an official at the environment ministry asking not to be named told Pakistan Today.
He criticized the
"The authorities are not making the public transport system efficient and are busy making tall and empty claims," an official at the environment ministry asking not to be named told Pakistan Today.
He criticized the
