Tag: climate

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan says a countrywide reforestation drive is on track to plant more than three billion trees by mid-2023 to mitigate the effects of climate change. The massive program, dubbed Ten Billion Tree Tsunami, went into effect last year and has already planted more than 500 million saplings across ...

Six days’ relentless rain had saturated the soil on the rolling slopes of Rajamala hamlet in Anamalai hills--which support tea and coffee plantations--in Idukki district of Kerala. On August 6, 2020, the downpour became especially torrential, forcing a portion of the hills to move, triggering a ...

Not far from that drowned village in Sindh is the city of Jacobabad, where temperatures in the summer run as high as 124 degrees Fahrenheit. It is the hottest city in Asia, if not the world. Jacobabad has long electricity blackouts. Its poor die as they toil in the ...

PESHAWAR: About 150 students from northwestern Pakistan traveled to Afghanistan this month to take part in tests that could win them Afghan government scholarships for higher education, particularly in medicine.   The Afghan government pays for 104 scholarships for Pakistanis every year, the Afghan consulate in Peshawar said.  “Medical ...

Greta Thunberg has called for the climate crisis to “dominate the news” adding that simply “connecting the dots” between current extreme events and global heating  doesn’t go far enough.The 17-year-old activist on Thursday posted a composite image of recent disasters - including the glowing orange sky over San Francisco ...

While global warming has led to rising tides, it's also threatening the water supply of 3.2 billion people around the world, according to a new UN report.Runoff from glaciers provides drinking water for tens of millions of people, but record loss of glacier mass is leading to increased water ...

Torrential rainfall in Pakistan claimed more than 100 lives last week, while causing widespread property and infrastructure damage.   The southern port city Karachi was thrown into chaos. Residential and commercial areas were submerged, and power outages disrupted life for days. Climate scientists say Pakistan is especially vulnerable to wild ...

Under Karachi's baroque local governance, services are choked by a tangle of different administrations, often run by competing political fiefdoms. In the confusion, drains go uncleared, rubbish can go uncollected and water mains reach few buildings. All the while, the city gets bigger. The effects of climate change are ...

The government has no plan to reach its own “net zero” climate target despite having written it into law last year, experts have warned.The Institute for Government, a think-tank, said that "leadership has been lacking" and that the legal and political commitment had yet to translate into serious policy ...

#Pakistan News The volume of lakes formed as glaciers worldwide melt due to climate change has jumped by 50% in 30 years, according to a new study based on satellite data. "We have known that not all meltwater is making it into the oceans immediately," lead author Dan Shugar, ...