environmental

Ali Nawaz RahimooUmarkot: The floods that struck Pakistan in 2011 and 2022 were not only humanitarian disasters; they were warnings of a changing climate reality. The destruction of homes, crops, roads, and livelihoods revealed how…

Shah Zaman BhangarKarachi: ​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 ShahPeshawar: 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 AwanIslamabad: 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 KumariKarachi: 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 BalochGwadar: 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…