#environmentaldegradation

AFP/APP Sydney: Australia on Monday rejected Turkey’s proposal to co-host next year’s UN climate summit, as competing bids for COP31 overshadow ongoing negotiations at this year’s conference in Brazil. Canberra and Ankara are facing…

AFP/APP Vietnam: Typhoon Kalmaegi made landfall Thursday in Vietnam's already storm-battered central belt, where thousands have been evacuated from areas in the path of one of the world’s deadliest cyclones this year. Kalmaegi cut a…

APP  Peshawar: At dawn, when the first light brushes the surface of the River Kabul, 35-year-old Hussain Ali pedals his rickety bicycle toward the water. For the past decade, this river has been both his workplace and his lifeline.…

New Desk  Lahore: The people of Lahore woke up again this week to a thick, choking haze — a poisonous fog that has turned their city into a gas chamber. But this time, health experts say, the toxic air did not originate within Punjab…

Shah Khalid Shah Jee  Bajaur: In a world where pollution has taken many forms—air, water, noise—there’s one silent intruder that often goes unnoticed yet poses a serious threat to all living beings: light pollution. Unlike other types of…

Wania Tahir Islamabad: A recent study by the US Pharmacopeia (USP) has reignited debate over the United States’ growing pharmaceutical vulnerability.  According to the report, nearly 700 American active pharmaceutical ingredients…

Dr Ikramullah Khan Bajaur: Bajaur today lives between anxiety and hope. Security worries have returned — shops close early, and travel feels unsafe after dusk. Parents wait anxiously for their children to return from school, and young…

Ali Nawaz Rahimoo Tharparkar: Water — the most essential ingredient of life — is under severe strain in Tharparkar, Sindh’s arid desert district. Already crippled by chronic scarcity, Thar now faces an even deadlier challenge: the…

Ali Nawaz Rahimoo Umarkot: Under the relentless desert sun, the scattered trees of Tharparkar are disappearing at an alarming pace. These green sentinels, which for generations anchored sand dunes, provided fodder for livestock, and…

Ali Nawaz Rahimoo Tharparkar: In an era when climate change, food insecurity, and environmental degradation are converging into a global crisis, the way we grow our food demands urgent attention. Industrial agriculture—with its heavy…