It is a race against time and time is running out fast. There may be those who still question that climate change is caused by human activity, but nobody anywhere in the world can deny that climate change is upon us, and its effects are going to vary from the merely inconvenient to the catastrophic […]
KP CM for indigenous solutions to global warming, climate change PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Pervez Khattak on Monday asked the environmentalists to play a role in development of the province by focusing on the promotion of indigenous research to find out local, cost-effective and sustainable solutions to the environmental challenges being faced by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. This […]
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation will help the Lahore College for Women University to develop its premises into a green campus under a United Nations Environment Programme Project. The announcement came in a seminar on Monday by climatologist and hydrologist Shahbaz Khan. He is the Director of the United Nations Educational, Scientific […]
Temperature in Karachi is likely to reach 39 degree Celsius as predicted by Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), reported on Sunday. According to PMD Office, hot weather is likely to prevail in Karachi during next two days. Day temperatures are expected to gradually increase from 38°C to 40°C and will start decreasing attaining the normal level […]
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan is strengthening its institutional structures to step up action to stave off the most drastic effects of climate change, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan told the international community here. Speaking after the signing of the Paris climate agreement at the UN General Assembly, he said Pakistan would establish a climate change […]
UNITED NATIONS – Pakistan on Friday signed the Paris Agreement on climate change that commits nearly every country to lowering planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions to help stave off the most drastic effects of global warming. Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan inked the agreement on behalf of the Government of Pakistan at a high-level ceremony […]
KARACHI – Two persons reportedly died of heatstroke in Karachi on Friday but the health department officials avoided confirming the casualties. Rescue sources informed that a person namely Sharafat Jokhio was found unconscious near the Manghopir Shrine. Receiving information, he was rushed to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead.Similarly, another person identified […]
Earth Day, falling in April 22, was founded in 1970 by Gaylord Nelson, a US senator and naturalist and was first celebrated by some 20 million Americans from thousands of schools, colleges and civil society. Though a national event back then, it served as a linchpin for the first global initiative for an action plan […]
NEW YORK – Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan will today sign the Paris Agreement on climate change, adopted by more than 190 countries in December last at a high-level ceremony at UN Headquarters in New York. Nisar , who was speaking to US-based Pakistani media on Wednesday evening, said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif […]
KARACHI: The city administration has set up 60 first response centres across Karachi which will be functioning from Friday (today) to respond to the ‘mild forecast’ made by the meteorological department for hot weather in the coming three days, officials said on Thursday. “Of the 171 first response centres, 60 will be functional from Friday […]
KARACHI: An inquiry report recently submitted to the commissioner Karachi has declared that a ‘mutual fight’ led to the death of ‘three male black bucks’ at the zoo a week ago, it emerged on Thursday. It rules out the possibility of an attack by stray dogs. The report prepared by a committee tasked to investigate […]
ISLAMABAD: On the face of increasing climate changes, the government is expecting a dangerous ‘heatwave’ this summer like last year when a historic sustained wave had worst hit the Sindh province, especially Port city of Karachi which took lives of more than 1,200 persons. Last year, in the second half of June, a record sizzling […]
SUKKUR: A stranded dolphin calf was rescued on Tuesday by a joint team of the World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan (WWF-P) and Sindh wildlife department along with local fishermen at Naulakhi minor irrigation canal in Naushero Feroze district. Weighing around 6kg, the female calf was about 76 centimetres long. From the canal to the spot […]
Karachi: In view of taking pre-emptive course of action with regards to the expected heat wave in the metropolis, the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) has declared state of emergency at the municipal-run hospitals. In a letter to health officials and medical superintendents of the KMC hospitals, Senior Director Health Services Dr Muhammad Ali Abbassi directed […]
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