pollution

News Desk Islamabad: A fresh bout of rain hit low-lying areas, while upper regions of Hazara division experienced snowfall starting on Sunday, leading to a drop in temperature. The high-altitude areas like Kaghan, Siren, and Konsh…

APP Lahore: Lahore, the provincial capital of Punjab, ranked as the fifth most polluted location worldwide on Sunday. Despite cold winds persisting in the early morning under bright sunlight, the city's air quality has once again…

APP Islamabad: Dense fog caused a standstill in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, resulting in considerable disruptions to daily activities including disruption of early morning flights, trains, and road transportation, with visibility dropping to…

APP Peshawar: President Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) Fuad Ishaq has expressed grave concern over increasing environmental pollution in the wake of people using alternative sources of fuel owing to the low gas pressure…

Shazia Mehboob Peshawar: The increasing level of household pollution, both in the form of biomass and solid waste generation, is posing serious threats to public health and the environment in Peshawar. The air quality index (AQI) in…

Naveed ul Haq Malik Lahore: In the wake of uncontrolled expansion, poorly conceived development initiatives, and inadequate time management by city authorities, Lahore finds itself entrenched in yet another winter of dense smog,…

News Desk Islamabad: Breathing in polluted air laden with toxins and smog poses significant health risks, including an increased likelihood of lung cancer and asthma, emphasised Dr Sherman Yasmin, a health expert. Yasmin urged…

AFP/APP New Delhi: Indian scientists are preparing cloud seeding technology to clean up poisonous smog in the capital with rain, but environmental critics fear it is an expensive distraction from tackling root causes. It is the latest…

News Desk Islamabad: A recent survey conducted by GSMA Intelligence with support from Huawei found that approximately 60 percent of respondents in Pakistan are willing to accept a lower salary to work for sustainability-focused…

News Desk Islamabad: A recent study by the Institute of Urbanism (IoU) has found that Islamabad generates over 1,000 metric tonnes of waste daily, a substantial portion of which is improperly disposed of through burning or open dumping…