Climate Change
Official notes “individuals at either end of life’s spectrum, infants and older people, are at particular risk”.
Updated 23 Jul, 2022 11:22am
Climate hazards even threaten to destabilise powerful players such as China and Brazil.
Updated 22 Jul, 2022 09:54am
“There has been so much climate denialism internationally, with the big polluters not wanting to give up their bad habits or to pay the price for going green,” she said.
Published 20 Jul, 2022 02:00pm
“We must hope for a better future, but hope is not a plan. Global pledges must go further,” she says.
Updated 19 Jul, 2022 10:40am
"National emergency" alert in Britain as temperatures predicted to surpass the 38.7C.
Updated 19 Jul, 2022 10:06am
Leaders at Pacific Islands Forum summit bristle at Chinese attempt to split some nations off into a trade and security agreement.
Updated 18 Jul, 2022 11:11am
Large parts of the Iberian Peninsula have seen temperatures surpassing 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) this week.
Updated 14 Jul, 2022 10:58am
Throws out attempt to block law that has exposed deep rifts between countries over how to fight climate change.
Updated 07 Jul, 2022 10:30am
Pakistan will have the highest losses as percentage of GDP at 9.1pc.
Updated 30 Jun, 2022 09:18am
Notes oceans have softened the impact of climate change for life on land but at a terrible cost.
Updated 28 Jun, 2022 08:40am
Pakistan faces up to $3.79bn annually in climate-related losses and is ranked among countries most vulnerable to climate change.
Updated 23 Jun, 2022 08:25am
With the River Seine off limits to bathing, scorched Parisians take refuge in city’s fountains.
Updated 19 Jun, 2022 09:50am
Relentless downpours over past week have inundated vast stretches of Bangladesh; floods set to worsen over next 2 days.
Published 18 Jun, 2022 03:51pm
The increased frequency, intensity and duration of heatwaves are clearly attributed to climate change.
Updated 18 Jun, 2022 09:17am
Women in southern Pakistan and millions like them around the world are at the searing edge of climate change.
Published 14 Jun, 2022 12:34pm
UN climate change chief tells negotiators from around 200 countries that talks must be expedited as "the world expects it".
Updated 07 Jun, 2022 08:29am
Sherry Rehman says the country experienced the longest heatwave in its history.
Updated 06 Jun, 2022 09:41am
Report predicts by 2040, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan will become water-stressed.
Updated 03 Jun, 2022 08:15am
The blaze has gulped down 40pc of the trees in the Koh-e-Sulaiman Range; experts blame extreme temperatures, human interference.
Updated 03 Jun, 2022 09:59am
The use of the term emergency is a way of signalling the need to go beyond reform as usual, PM Bob Loughman says.
Updated 29 May, 2022 08:38am
Majority of wealthy countries is creating unhealthy, dangerous and noxious conditions for children across the world, says Unicef
Updated 25 May, 2022 08:25am
The main risks to sea turtles in Tunisia are linked to fisheries, since they become entangled in nets.
Updated 23 May, 2022 07:44am
Pakistan among nations affected by drought; extreme weather led to economic losses worth billions of dollars, report says.
Updated 20 May, 2022 08:22am
MNA Nawab Talpur writes letter to premier, asks him to intervene in water distribution among provinces.
Updated 20 May, 2022 09:24am
Climate change also threatening biodiversity in both countries.
Updated 19 May, 2022 04:30pm
One of the world's largest rivers, the Brahmaputra, which flows into India and Bangladesh, burst its banks in Assam.
Updated 18 May, 2022 06:10pm
Says Pakistan lacks resources to create nationwide sustained response to crisis.
Updated 18 May, 2022 09:35am
This year the heat came early in what many experts say is more proof of climate change.
Updated 18 May, 2022 07:51am
It has become increasingly difficult to find cover — natural or synthetic — in the concrete jungle of Karachi.
Updated 29 May, 2022 03:14pm
Summer heatwaves are projected to increase at a rate of 0.71 day per decade in the country, says Global Food Policy Report 2022.
Updated 17 May, 2022 08:05am
