droughts

Shah Khalid Shah Bajaur: As the first light of dawn spreads across the mountains of Bajaur, 55-year-old dairy farmer Shaal Pacha begins another day among the cows that have sustained his family for decades.  Inside his dairy farm in…

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…

Nadeem Khan Quetta: Before sunrise in Panjgur, Rahima Baloch begins her day fetching water from a distant well before the desert heat climbs above 45°C.  But the 32-year-old mother of four is already exhausted. Years of drought have…

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.…