##Environmentalcrisis

Dr Saeed Ahmad Ali Multan: From rising temperatures and worsening floods to declining biodiversity and water insecurity, Pakistan’s growing environmental challenges are being linked to a silent crisis, the rapid loss of its forests.…

Shah Khalid Shah Bajaur: In the rugged mountains of Bajaur, where communities live close to nature and depend heavily on livestock for survival, a tragic war between humans and wildlife has reignited a long-standing debate: how can…

Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: Thousands of fish lie motionless along the banks of Rawal Lake. Their silver bodies, once hidden beneath the water, now float lifeless against the rocks, filling the air with a foul smell and an even fouler…

APP Islamabad: Islamabad authorities intensified their campaign against air pollution on Tuesday by demolishing five illegally operating brick kilns in Sector H-16 for failing to adopt mandatory zig-zag technology designed to curb…

APP Islamabad: Environmental experts, conservationists and legal practitioners have warned that decades of environmental degradation, encroachments and weak enforcement continue to threaten Margalla Hills National Park, urging…

Fakhar-e-Alam Peshawar: For 38-year-old beekeeper Attaur Rehman, the steady buzzing of bees is no longer just a sound of nature, it is the sound of survival, resilience, and hope. A resident of Nowshera, Attaur’s life was once…

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…

Raziq Bhatti Islamabad: If we look back just two or three decades, the rhythm of nature in our region was entirely different. Spring would begin in early February, trees and plants would blossom naturally, summer would arrive by April,…

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…