Climate Change

News Desk  Islamabad: Pakistan could face shrinking winters, prolonged summers, and substantially heavier monsoon rains by 2026, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) warned Wednesday. NDMA meteorology expert Faiza Ghus…

News Desk  Peshawar:  The Peshawar Toll Plaza to Swabi section of the M-1 Motorway was temporarily closed for all traffic on Tuesday after dense fog reduced visibility to just a few metres. According to the National Highways and…

News Desk  Islamabad: The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has issued an unprecedented advisory after ash clouds from Ethiopia’s Hayli Gubbi volcano drifted into Pakistani airspace, raising concerns over aviation safety. The…

News Desk Lahore:  Senior Minister Punjab Marriyum Aurangzeb on Sunday warned that pollution levels in Lahore are likely to rise as easterly winds carry pollutants from neighboring Indian cities into the province. In her statement, the…

AFP/APP Belém, Brazil: The COP30 climate summit concluded after two weeks in Belem, marked by protests, street marches, and even a fire. Beneath the tents on the former airport site at the edge of the Amazon, nearly 200 nations adopted…

APP Peshawar: As a biting cold wave sweeps across the flood-hit Malakand division, temperatures have plunged sharply, forcing affected residents to scramble for warmth—especially through long, freezing nights. While the sudden cold…

AFP/APP Belém, Brazil:Global climate talks in Brazil edged toward a final agreement on Saturday after the European Union backed a compromise text that contains only an indirect reference to phasing out fossil fuels, following tense…

News Desk Islamabad: Pakistan has renewed its call for urgent, predictable, and equitable climate finance, enhanced technology transfer, and stronger international cooperation to support climate-vulnerable countries, during a series of…

AFP/APP Belém, Brazil: A bitter standoff over whether to reference fossil fuels in the final agreement threatened to derail UN climate talks in Brazil on Friday, as time ran out on the scheduled last day of COP30. At stake is an…

AFP/APP Belém, Brazil: COP30 climate negotiations in the Brazilian city of Belém were thrown into fresh turmoil on Thursday after a fire broke out at the conference venue, prompting a panicked evacuation and adding to a string of…