Climate

News Desk  Islamabad: The National Institute of Health (NIH) has issued a public advisory on heatstroke prevention and management, urging health authorities and citizens to take precautionary measures as temperatures continue to rise…

News Desk  New York: By all appearances, the oceans remain vast, powerful and endless. Covering more than 70 per cent of the Earth's surface, they regulate the climate, sustain marine life, provide food for billions of people and absorb…

News Desk  Mexico: The eastern Pacific hurricane season has officially begun with the formation of Tropical Storm Amanda, the first named storm of 2026.  While the storm currently poses no threat to land, meteorologists say its…

Laksha Kumari Karachi: When I first began covering environmental stories—floods erasing villages overnight, rivers choked with industrial waste, and communities displaced by droughts they did nothing to cause—I thought the hardest part…

News Desk Islamabad: As climate change accelerates glacial melt across Pakistan’s northern mountains, experts are calling for urgent, coordinated action to strengthen monitoring systems, improve policy implementation and scale up…

News Desk Swat: With the arrival of spring, the upper reaches of Swat Valley are witnessing a surge in tourism as shifting weather patterns and blooming landscapes turn the region into a scenic retreat. At the heart of this seasonal…

Shazia Mehboob Islamabad: In South Asia, summers are no longer just hot, they are relentless. Across Pakistan, Afghanistan,  Bangladesh, and India, rising temperatures and prolonged heatwaves are rapidly becoming the new normal.  For…

Abdul Samad Tariq  Peshawar: As Pakistan reels from intensifying climate shocks — catastrophic floods, prolonged droughts and deepening water scarcity — one of its strongest defenses remains largely invisible and undervalued: wetlands.…

AFP/APP Frankfurt: Germany’s progress on cutting greenhouse gas emissions slowed sharply in 2025, as the North Sea recorded its warmest year on record, increasing pressure on the conservative-led government to accelerate climate…

AFP/APP Paris, France: Deforestation on a small scale can have a disproportionately large impact on the climate, a new study has found, challenging the common perception that only large-scale destruction of tropical rainforests drives…