#environmentaldegradation

News Desk  Islamabad: Pakistan is losing an estimated $22 billion every year—equivalent to 6.5% of its GDP—due to the severe impacts of air pollution, Senator Sherry Rehman revealed during a meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on…

APP Lahore: In a major step toward improving water quality and environmental sustainability in Punjab, the Punjab Municipal Development Fund Company (PMDFC) has completed Pakistan’s first pilot project using Floating Wetlands Technology…

News Desk  Islamabad: Pakistan could face shrinking winters, prolonged summers, and substantially heavier monsoon rains by 2026, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) warned Wednesday. NDMA meteorology expert Faiza Ghus…

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…