Climate Change

APP Lahore: Under the special instructions of Lahore Commissioner Muhammad Ali Randhawa, the Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) will hold a cycling event (rally) to create awareness about smog hazards on November 5. The event will be…

Dr Saeed Ahmad Ali Lahore: On November 2nd, the capital city of Punjab was shrouded in a thick blanket of smog, obscuring even its towering buildings and historic landmarks. The streets were crowded with motorbike riders determined to…

AFP/APP Abu Dhabi: Within mitigation, the EU has a “desire to drive out fossil fuels”, to peak global GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions by 2025, tripling renewable energy and doubling energy efficiency by 2030, said Europe Climate…

AFP/APP Beijing: Beijing is the third most polluted major city on Earth on Wednesday, just ahead of Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, stated IQAir– air quality monitoring firm. With tens of millions of people in northern China under severe…

AFP Paris: Ahead of UN climate talks in Dubai on November 30, here are 10 key dates in the battle against global warming. 1988: Alarm bells Alerted by scientists to signs that the Earth’s surface was warming, in 1988 the United…

Xinhua/APP Manila: The climate change, geopolitical tensions and diseases have strained the financial capacities of developing members so there is a need for Asian Development Fund (ADF) grants to support their recovery efforts and…

News Desk Karachi: In an effort to promote environmental sustainability, home-based workers participated in a plantation activity, contributing to the fight against climate change. Several plants were distributed to workers to emphasise…

Hina Afzal Durrani Islamabad: Climate change poses a significant threat to the survival of parrots in Pakistan, but there is no research in progress to assess its impact on their populations. Additionally, the absence of effective measures…

APP Peshawar: About 60 percent of infant and child deaths are caused by diarrhoea, while the cholera fatality rate is 25-5 percent, and every 16 minutes, a person dies of hepatitis, mostly due to drinking unsafe water in Pakistan,…

Xinhua/APP New Delhi: The overall air quality index (AQI) of Delhi was recorded at 302 on Sunday, and the most prominent pollutants are PM 2.5 and PM 10, according to the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research…