Climate Change

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

APP Lahore: In a major step toward improving water quality and environmental sustainability in Punjab, the Punjab Municipal Development Fund Company (PMDFC) has completed Pakistan’s first pilot project using Floating Wetlands Technology…

News Desk Islamabad: Climate and public health experts have called on the Pakistani government to declare climate change a national health emergency, warning that the country’s rapidly rising vulnerability requires urgent, science-driven…