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AFP/APP Paris, France: Climate change is turbocharging heatwaves, wildfires, floods and tropical storms, but how deadly have extreme weather events become for people in their path? Annual climate reports released last week show the…

Basit Ali/Mehnaz Bibi Lahore: Climate change is a harsh reality that is transforming our planet; it is no longer a distant threat. The warning signs are everywhere—floods are becoming fiercer due to heatwaves, rapidly melting glaciers,…

News Desk  Islamabad: Climate experts on Friday sounded a grave warning that climate change has entered a dangerous acceleration phase, with rising temperatures and increasingly destructive weather events signalling that the planet is…

News Desk  Lahore: Coordinator to the Federal Tax Ombudsman, Saif Ur Rehman, has warned that Pakistan’s rapidly growing population, coupled with intensifying climate change impacts, poses a grave threat to the country’s economic…

Muhammad Hussain Quetta: As climate change intensifies across the globe, its harshest impact is being felt by those already on the margins — the mothers and children of Balochistan. Rising temperatures, erratic rainfall, recurring…

AFP/APP United Nations: Nearly 80 percent of the world’s poorest population — about 900 million people — are directly exposed to climate hazards intensified by global warming, bearing what the United Nations has described as a “double…

Yasrab Iftikhar Lahore: The alarming impacts of climate change—rising global temperatures, erratic weather patterns, and extreme climatic events—are posing an imminent threat to water resources and agricultural productivity in Pakistan.…

APP Islamabad: Senator Samina Mumtaz Zehri, Chairperson of the Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights, and Romina Khurshid Alam, Coordinator to the Prime Minister on Climate Change, have reached a consensus on the urgent need to…

Shazia Mehboob Islamabad: As Typhoon Bebinca approaches China’s densely populated eastern coastline, it underscores the growing impacts of climate change, especially in South and Southeast Asia, where extreme weather events such as…

Shazia Mehboob Islamabad: Pakistan stands among the nations most severely impacted by climate change, with each passing year intensifying the severity and spread of its effects.  The country is frequently devastated by natural…