glaciers

News Desk Islamabad: Pakistan is home to more than 6,668 glaciers — the highest concentration in the world — underscoring the country’s critical reliance on glacial and groundwater resources. Groundwater alone contributes an estimated 50…

AFP/APP Paris: While humanity's efforts to curb planet-warming emissions are nowhere near enough to avoid heating the world to catastrophic levels, tentative improvements show that progress is possible. The climate trajectory, while…

News Desk Islamabad: Melting glaciers near Switzerland’s famous Matterhorn mountain have revealed the remains of a German climber who went missing in 1986. According to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) report, the remains of…

News Desk Islamabad: Many of these glaciers are melting as a result of careless trekking because it is now a lucrative industry to take tourists up glaciers. Tourism must be eco-tourism if these glaciers are to survive as human progress…

News Desk Peshawar: Himalayan glaciers disappeared 65 percent faster in the 2010s than in the previous decade; the glaciers could lose up to 80 per cent of their current volume by the end of this century; the availability of water in the…

News Desk Peshawar: Pakistan is vulnerable to climate change, and in the next few years, it is anticipated to have a severe water deficit for domestic, industrial, and agricultural use. This is mostly due to changing weather patterns,…

News Desk Islamabad: “Without urgent, effective, and equitable mitigation and adaptation actions, climate change increasingly threatens ecosystems, biodiversity, and the livelihoods, health, and well-being of current and future…

News Desk Up to 15 million people face risk of catastrophic flooding from glacial lakes which could burst their natural dams at any moment, a new study finds. The study led by Newcastle University is the first global attempt to map…

Islamabad: Based on the optimistic and pessimistic scenarios, the combined risks from the escalation of climate change and environmental degradation will ultimately worsen Pakistan’s economic fragility and might cut annual Gross Domestic…

APP Islamabad: The Senate Standing Committee on Climate Change was briefed on Friday that the country witnessed a 300 per cent increase in glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) incidents and rising sea level threatening the existence of…