Climate Change

AFP/APP Paris: Growing calls for the world to come to grips with the many ways that global warming affects human health have prompted the first day dedicated to the issue at the crunch UN climate talks starting next week. Extreme heat,…

News Desk Islamabad: A recent survey conducted by GSMA Intelligence with support from Huawei found that approximately 60 percent of respondents in Pakistan are willing to accept a lower salary to work for sustainability-focused…

News Desk Islamabad: A recent study by the Institute of Urbanism (IoU) has found that Islamabad generates over 1,000 metric tonnes of waste daily, a substantial portion of which is improperly disposed of through burning or open dumping…

AFP/APP Paris: While humanity's efforts to curb planet-warming emissions are nowhere near enough to avoid heating the world to catastrophic levels, tentative improvements show that progress is possible. The climate trajectory, while…

Imran Nazir Abbasi Islamabad: Given the historical significance of our agricultural sector as the cornerstone of our national economy and food security, a crucial pivot towards modern agricultural methods and embracing innovative seed…

AFP/APP New York: New York State sued PepsiCo on Wednesday, pointing to the soda giant's plastic waste as a scourge of waterways and blasting the company's "misleading" statements on the environment. The civil suit, filed by New York…

APP Islamabad: Vehicular emissions emerged as a primary contributor to poor air quality in Islamabad, as highlighted in a recent press release from the Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency (Pak-EPA). An unnamed official from the…

APP Bahawalpur: Dense smog has blanketed Bahawalpur, yet there hasn't been any action taken against drivers with obscured number plates or vehicles without proper identification. Like other districts in Punjab, Bahawalpur is among the…

News Desk Peshawar: Health, agriculture, and climate experts have called for a gradual shift from tobacco cultivation to food crops to address Pakistan’s worsening food insecurity, compounded by the 2022 floods and global supply chain…

Sana Akhtar Quetta: In the last few years, climate change’s effects have become more evident in Pakistan's Balochistan province. The average temperature has risen, as measurements show, and the weather has become more erratic. Heavy…