LAHORE: WWF-Pakistan hosted its second “Environmental Journalists Quarterly Meeting” at its head office in Lahore on Tuesday, which aimed to shed light on the water pollution of Lahore. Dr. Ejaz Ahmed, Senior Director, WWF-Pakistan welcomed the participants and gave an overview of WWF-Pakistan’s work on water. Ali Hasnain Sayed, Manager Water Security and Stewardship, WWF-Pakistan […]
ISLAMABAD: The Environmental Tribunal will resume work after over 20 months by taking up a set of cases against polluters today (Thursday). The Environment Protection Agency has set up two teams to actively monitor and file cases against polluters in Islamabad in response to pressure exerted by the recently-commissioned environment tribunal. The teams will work […]
The much hyped about agreement between the US and China in Beijing towards the end of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit is frankly too little too late. Under the agreement, the world’s two biggest polluters, accounting for 42 percent of the carbon emissions in the atmosphere, will undertake to control/limit their emissions. China […]
KARACHI: The Sindh Environmental Protection Agency informed a two-judge bench of the Sindh High Court on Monday that the Karachi Port Trust was operating a coal handling terminal in Shireen Jinnah Colony without adhering to the environmental laws which not only constituted an environmental hazard but also posed a serious threat to the health of […]
PESHAWAR: The University of Agriculture Peshawar has recently established the Climate Change Centre to conduct studies and research on climate change and cope with the challenges posed by changing weather patterns. “Climate change is defining human development challenges of our time because the earth’s climate is changing and its manifestation is changes in weather systems, […]
ISLAMABAD: The agriculture sector of Pakistan has still the potential to push the economy upwards, said Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) founding chairman Dr Amir Muhammed who is also Rector of FAST. He was speaking as chief gust on the occasion of inaugural session of a seminar on “Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture in […]
KARACHI: The country’s coastal areas braced on Wednesday for cyclone Nilofar which may cause heavy rain and thunderstorm over the next 24 hours and the Sindh government termed the situation ‘serious’ and declared an emergency in six districts. The authorities claimed to have vacated government buildings and schools in several areas to house the affected […]
KARACHI: Tropical cyclone ‘Nilofar’ in the Arabian Sea has intensified and become a very severe tropical cyclone, which is currently about 1,100 kilometres away from Karachi in the northwest. Chief Meteorologist Tauseef Alam told the media that the cyclone will start moving towards the northwest and then northeast. Tauseef Alam said heavy rains will take […]
LAHORE: Speakers at a disaster management workshop titled ‘Media in Times of Disaster,’ organised by the Bahauddin Zakaria University (BZU) at its Lahore campus, urged the media to follow up stories and news as after-effects of flood 2014 needed media attention. They also said that people in flood-affected areas were suffering from numerous problems, including […]
Despite receiving a mixed response to the Metrobus project in Lahore, the Punjab government is barrelling forward with several other developmental projects, without pausing for a moment to appraise their handiwork. If they had, perhaps they would have second guessed the feasibility of their plans. The same haste that was displayed when constructing the Lahore […]
Karachi: Climate change is a reality in Pakistan and we cannot meet its challenges unless we understand and accept the challenge, Pakistan’s top climate change scientist Dr Qamar-uz-Zaman Chaudhary told The News on Wednesday. He said the government needed to appoint a federal secretary as well as a federal minister for climate change to lead […]
While the death toll has risen to 358, millions homeless, standing crops destroyed covering millions of acres of land, the floods continue to cause more losses. Though bad, the situation is not worse than that of the 2010 super flood when 20 million people were affected. When asked about flood warnings and preparedness measures, we […]
ISLAMABAD: The devastating flooding that has swamped a large part of the Punjab province and Azad Kashmir and left millions homeless is one of the worst natural disasters to date attributable to the climate change. According to the experts, there are a few facts that point towards climate change as having to do with this […]
While our prime minister is intent on switching over to coal, one of the dirtiest fossil fuels in the world, by converting the country’s oil plants to coal power, in the US and China (both considered the top polluters in the world when it comes to carbon dioxide emissions) something interesting is happening. Last month, […]
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