Climate Change
PDMA calls for all outdoor activities to be suspended immediately; warns of potential temperature surge of 4-7°C.
Updated 10 Apr, 2025 12:15pm
Since the floods struck Sindh with an unforgiving force in 2022, the students continue to fight to stay afloat against a system that keeps pulling them under.
Updated 09 Apr, 2025 11:29am
Instructs schools to ban outdoor activities of children and health dept to set up "heatwave counters" in hospitals.
Updated 09 Apr, 2025 12:08pm
Scientists warn that every fraction of degree of global warming increases intensity and frequency of extreme weather events.
Updated 09 Apr, 2025 10:00am
Particles are less than five millimetres in size, with the smallest invisible to the naked eye.
Published 08 Apr, 2025 08:01am
Authorities should refrain from undertaking any water scheme that infringes on rights of any federating unit to avoid more controversies.
Updated 07 Apr, 2025 08:57am
Water is piped from streams into the village, and sprayed into the air during the freezing winter temperatures.
Published 06 Apr, 2025 11:24am
EPA warns that setting up new stations during an impending drought would strain Punjab’s already limited water resources.
Updated 06 Apr, 2025 10:23am
Minister stresses collaborative efforts to protect coastal regions.
Published 31 Mar, 2025 05:47am
Asia hit hard by rising frequency and severity of storms, floods, heat waves and droughts.
Updated 31 Mar, 2025 09:32am
Scientists estimate around 30pc of the carbon dioxide (CO2) released by humans is absorbed by the oceans.
Published 30 Mar, 2025 06:38am
Programme will tackle smog and air pollution with launch of several comprehensive initiatives.
Updated 30 Mar, 2025 07:52am
Climate finance flows follow climate action.
Published 29 Mar, 2025 07:09am
Says that areas face growing water stress due to rapid urban expansion, deforestation and rising demand.
Updated 28 Mar, 2025 10:41am
Committee expresses strong reservations over the absence of CDA leadership at the meeting.
Updated 26 Mar, 2025 11:31am
Waiting for outside help to arrive will only aggravate our climate challenges and not mitigate them.
Published 24 Mar, 2025 08:21am
Waiting for outside help to arrive will only aggravate our climate challenges and not mitigate them.
Updated 24 Mar, 2025 09:16am
Traditional approaches of post-disaster compensation and international humanitarian aid aren’t enough for disaster-prone Gilgit-Baltistan.
Updated 24 Mar, 2025 09:53am
UN-ESCAP report estimates urban population of Asia-Pacific region to rise by 1.2bn.
Updated 24 Mar, 2025 09:10am
World Meteorological Organisation says earth just witnessed hottest 10 years on record.
Updated 24 Mar, 2025 08:13am
Prime minister says his government is actively pursuing policies that integrate climate action across all sectors.
Updated 23 Mar, 2025 10:29am
World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan urges govt, civil society and local communities to take collective action to protect wooded areas.
Updated 22 Mar, 2025 11:29am
Aurangzeb launches Parwaaz Green Action Bond, says country recognises climate change as existential threat; Earth Hour to be observed tonight.
Updated 22 Mar, 2025 09:36am
Rules not finalised even after 8 years, Justice Mandokhail observes.
Updated 22 Mar, 2025 08:23am
Aurangzeb says country received pledges of $10 billion after 2022 floods but only received one-third of that amount.
Published 21 Mar, 2025 02:06pm
The United Nations has designated 2025 as the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation.
Published 21 Mar, 2025 06:54am
"On the one hand, fertile farmland is being swallowed up by luxury housing schemes. On the other, farmers are being driven further from their livelihoods. How can we justify this?" questions WWF-P's Hammad Naqi Khan.
Updated 24 Mar, 2025 11:12am
Lahore’s urban planning is a tragic loop — bulldozing farmland, displacing the poor, and destroying the environment — all for soulless real estate. The Ravi Riverfront Project is its latest, most reckless gamble.
Updated 18 Mar, 2025 03:51pm
Reuters Institute survey reveals public "increasingly out of step with changing reality".
Updated 17 Mar, 2025 10:35pm
Clarifies revised framework will not apply to existing net-metered consumers with a valid licence.
Published 13 Mar, 2025 09:17pm
