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Climate Change
Children of Quetta Living with Asthma in Polluted Air
Nadeem Khan
Quetta: In Pakistan’s southwest city of Quetta, dust often hangs visibly in the air. For many residents, breathing has become a daily struggle, especially for children suffering from asthma.
Outside the doctor’s room at…
How Dangerous Can El Nino Become This Year?
News Desk
As the Atlantic hurricane season officially begins and runs through November 30, meteorologists are closely monitoring a climate phenomenon that could significantly alter storm activity across the globe: El Nino.
Forecasters…
Dust Storms Kill 4, Injure Over 60 Across Sindh, Punjab
News Desk
Islamabad: At least four people, including a girl, were killed and more than 60 others injured in separate incidents caused by powerful dust storms that swept across various districts of Sindh and Punjab.
According to…
Islamabad’s Margalla Hills Engulfed in Multi-Point Fire
News Desk
Islamabad: A wildfire broke out at multiple points in the Margalla Hills on Monday, prompting a large-scale emergency response as authorities deployed more than 65 personnel to contain the blaze and temporarily shut all hiking…
How Beekeeping Changed One Man’s Life in KP
Fakhar-e-Alam
Peshawar: For 38-year-old beekeeper Attaur Rehman, the steady buzzing of bees is no longer just a sound of nature, it is the sound of survival, resilience, and hope.
A resident of Nowshera, Attaur’s life was once…
NDMA Warns of Severe Landslide Risk in Northern Pakistan
News Desk
Islamabad: Authorities have issued a high to very high landslide risk alert for mountainous regions of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) from May 26 to 31 due to persistent…
The Looming Ecological Crisis in Sindh
Shah Zaman Bhangar
Karachi: Extreme heat, heavy rains, cloudbursts, floods, urban flooding, land degradation, declining wildlife populations, and sea intrusion into farmland are not just effects of climate change. Together, they reflect…
KP Districts on High Alert Over Flood, GLOF Threat
News Desk
Islamabad: Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) has placed several upper districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on high alert following the arrival of a new weather system that could trigger flash floods, landslides and…
Moorland Fires Put 2.3 Million at Risk, Study Warns
News Desk
Leeds: A new study by the University of Leeds and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has found that routine moorland burning is exposing millions of people across the UK to unsafe levels of air pollution.…
Will the REDD+ Programme Protect KP’s Forests?
Shah Khalid Shah
Peshawar: Twenty years ago, the residents of Khar tehsil in Bajaur planted a vast eucalyptus forest across hundreds of hectares of communal mountain land with support from the Forest Department.
The plantation grew…