Climate Change

APP Lahore:  Lahore once again topped the global pollution charts on Sunday, with the Air Quality Index (AQI) soaring to a hazardous 358, placing the city among the most polluted in the world. According to air monitoring data, areas…

News Desk  Lahore: Coordinator to the Federal Tax Ombudsman, Saif Ur Rehman, has warned that Pakistan’s rapidly growing population, coupled with intensifying climate change impacts, poses a grave threat to the country’s economic…

AFP/APP Belém: Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday said the Earth can no longer sustain humanity’s dependence on fossil fuels, warning that without confronting this reality, the battle against climate change will be…

AFP/APP Geneva: An alarming streak of exceptional temperatures has put 2025 on course to be among the hottest years ever recorded, the United Nations said Thursday, insisting though that the trend could still be reversed. While this…

APP  Peshawar: At dawn, when the first light brushes the surface of the River Kabul, 35-year-old Hussain Ali pedals his rickety bicycle toward the water. For the past decade, this river has been both his workplace and his lifeline.…

AFP/APP Belém, Brazil: World leaders are gathering Thursday in the Brazilian Amazon to reaffirm that climate change remains a global priority, even amid unfulfilled pledges and the absence of the United States, which has opted to skip…

AFP/APP Brussels: EU environment ministers will on Tuesday make a last-ditch effort to reaffirm the bloc’s climate leadership by finalising key emissions targets ahead of the UN Climate Summit (COP30) in Brazil. “To come empty-handed…

New Desk  Lahore: The people of Lahore woke up again this week to a thick, choking haze — a poisonous fog that has turned their city into a gas chamber. But this time, health experts say, the toxic air did not originate within Punjab…

News Desk  Islamabad:  Nearly 20 per cent of heavy transport vehicles in Islamabad are breaching national emission standards, a Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency (Pak-EPA) study has revealed, raising concerns about the city’s…

AFP/APP WASHINGTON: The United States will not send any top officials to the COP30 climate talks in Brazil later this month, a White House official said Saturday, as President Donald Trump focuses on boosting fossil fuels instead of…