environmental

Ali Nawaz Rahimoo Umarkot: The devastating floods of 2011 and again in 2022 did far more than destroy infrastructure and livelihoods, they exposed a hard truth that climate change is no longer a distant risk but a present and recurring…

Shah Zaman Bhangar Karachi: ​Extreme heat, heavy rains, cloudbursts, floods, urban flooding, land degradation, declining wildlife populations, and sea intrusion into farmland are not just effects of climate change. Together, they reflect…

Shah Khalid Shah Peshawar: Twenty years ago, the residents of Khar tehsil in Bajaur planted a vast eucalyptus forest across hundreds of hectares of communal mountain land with support from the Forest Department. The plantation grew…

Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: There are no straight lines in this picture, only a tangle of pipes, a sluggish ribbon of blackened water, and the quiet suggestion that something essential has gone deeply wrong. Along the edge of an open…

APP New York: Pakistan has escalated its diplomatic offensive at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), urging immediate intervention over India’s suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) and warning of far-reaching consequences…

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…

Zareef Baloch Gwadar: Four sea turtles have been found dead along a two-kilometre stretch of coastline in Gwadar, raising serious concerns among marine experts and environmentalists. The local authorities have so far been unable to…

Shah Khalid Shah  Bajaur: In the rugged landscape of Bajaur District, memories of a once-thriving natural world still linger in the stories of its elders.  Eighty-five-year-old Malik Haroon Khan of Dele village in Khar Tehsil recalls…

News Desk  Islamabad: As Pakistan grapples with rising water stress and increasingly erratic weather patterns, the government has unveiled its first-ever National Drought Action Plan (NDAP), marking a strategic shift from reactive…

News Desk  Islamabad: Pakistan has emerged as the world’s most polluted country in 2025, highlighting a worsening environmental and public health crisis driven by dangerously high levels of fine particulate matter (PM2.5). According…