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Climate Change
COP30 Through the Eyes of a Young Pakistani Activist
Shah Khalid Shah Jee
Bajaur: Sabir Ali, a young Pakistani social activist, Kofi Annan Foundation Fellow, and climate change advocate, recently attended the COP30 conference in Belém, Brazil, marking his first experience at this global…
Climate Experts Warn of Fast-Approaching Climate Breakdown
News Desk
Islamabad: Climate experts on Friday sounded a grave warning that climate change has entered a dangerous acceleration phase, with rising temperatures and increasingly destructive weather events signalling that the planet is…
Air Pollution Costs Pakistan $22 Billion Annually: Senate Warns
News Desk
Islamabad: Pakistan is losing an estimated $22 billion every year—equivalent to 6.5% of its GDP—due to the severe impacts of air pollution, Senator Sherry Rehman revealed during a meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on…
Rain forecasts raise fears in flood-hit Indonesia, Sri Lanka
AFP/APP
Sibolga, Indonesia: Forecasts of fresh rain on Thursday raised fears of more damage in flood-hit Indonesia and Sri Lanka, after earlier deluges killed more than 1,500 people in four countries.
In Indonesia, the meteorological…
Islamabad Expands Testing as Air Quality Drive Widens
News Desk
Islamabad: Islamabad’s Vehicle Emission Testing System has added more inspection points to manage the growing number of vehicles requiring checks.
According to officials, the increase in testing sites has reduced waiting…
Extreme weather ‘uprooting lives’ as cyclones batter Asia: UN
APP
New York: Across southeast Asia, record-breaking rains and flooding caused by back-to-back tropical storms have claimed hundreds of lives and brought devastation and displacement upon entire communities, UN agencies said on Tuesday.…
Asia floods death toll tops 1100 as troops aid survivors
AFP/APP
Padang, Indonesia: The toll in deadly flooding and landslides across parts of Asia climbed past 1,100 on Monday as hardest-hit Sri Lanka and Indonesia deployed military personnel to help survivors.
Separate weather systems…
Experts work on UN climate report amid US pushback
AFP/APP
Saint-Denis, France: Some 600 experts gather outside Paris on Monday to start work on the next major UN climate report, as the international consensus on global warming is challenged by climate change-sceptic US President Donald…
Pakistan Needs Collective Climate Action, ICCES-25 Concludes
News Desk
Sukkur: The second International Conference on Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability (ICCES-25), organised by the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University of Technology & Skill Development (BBSUTSD), Khairpur, concluded…
Punjab Issues Alert as ‘Fog Fever’ Hits Cattle
M Atif Ismail
Multan: The Livestock Department has issued an alert over a seasonal rise in Fog Fever, a sudden and severe respiratory disease affecting cows and buffaloes across Punjab.
The illness, medically known as Acute Bovine…