heatwaves

AFP/APP Paris, France: Climate change is turbocharging heatwaves, wildfires, floods and tropical storms, but how deadly have extreme weather events become for people in their path? Annual climate reports released last week show the…

News Desk  Islamabad: Climate experts on Friday sounded a grave warning that climate change has entered a dangerous acceleration phase, with rising temperatures and increasingly destructive weather events signalling that the planet is…

News Desk  Lahore: Coordinator to the Federal Tax Ombudsman, Saif Ur Rehman, has warned that Pakistan’s rapidly growing population, coupled with intensifying climate change impacts, poses a grave threat to the country’s economic…

AFP/APP Belém: Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday said the Earth can no longer sustain humanity’s dependence on fossil fuels, warning that without confronting this reality, the battle against climate change will be…

Muhammad Hussain Quetta: As climate change intensifies across the globe, its harshest impact is being felt by those already on the margins — the mothers and children of Balochistan. Rising temperatures, erratic rainfall, recurring…

AFP/APP United Nations: Nearly 80 percent of the world’s poorest population — about 900 million people — are directly exposed to climate hazards intensified by global warming, bearing what the United Nations has described as a “double…

AFP/APP Geneva: The world must learn to live with increasingly frequent and intense heatwaves, the UN’s weather agency warned Tuesday, as much of Europe sweltered under scorching summer temperatures. The World Meteorological…

News Desk Islamabad: A relentless wave of hot and dry weather is set to grip most parts of Pakistan over the coming days, with the plains expected to swelter under very hot conditions, the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) warned…

Abdul Samad Tariq Islamabad: Pakistan stands at the frontlines of a climate emergency, battling deadly heatwaves, catastrophic floods, and rapidly vanishing glaciers that threaten millions of lives and livelihoods. Though the country…

News Desk  Karachi: The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has forecast very hot and dry weather conditions across most districts of Sindh, including Karachi, over the next 24 hours. According to the Met Office, temperatures are…