LAHORE: Virtual University of Pakistan organised a walk to observe environmental protection, aimed at creating awareness to protect the environment and to promote an environment to live a better life. Students and faculty members participated in walk, holding placards inscribed with different slogans about environmental protection issues. The participants urged for launching awareness campaigns at […]
ISLAMABAD: Flawed route alignment for the twin cities’ metro bus if implemented, will cost the leafy capital around 1,040 trees aged two to 40 years. According to the Capital Development Authority’s (CDA) Environment Wing calculations, out of 1,040 trees some 240 including 85 pine trees are of age 40 years and above. Most of these […]
Karachi: Earth Hour, a worldwide movement organised by the World Wide Fund for Nature, will be observed outside the Sindh Assembly from 8:30pm to 9:30pm on Saturday. In partnership with the WWF-Pakistan, the Sindh government has signed a statement declaring Sindh as the Earth Hour province for 2014. Sindh is the only province in the […]
LONDON: Air pollution kills about seven million people worldwide every year, with more than half of the fatalities due to fumes from indoor stoves, according to a new report from the World Health Organisation published on Tuesday. The agency said air pollution is the cause of about one in eight deaths and has now become […]
Karachi: The Gadani beach — one of the few coastal areas of Pakistan with sparking blue water and a unique range of marine habitat — is in danger of losing its lustre. Toxic wastes from the ship-breaking industry, coupled with illegal nets and the government’s plan to set up a coal-based energy corridor in the […]
THATTA: Pakistan is losing 41,100 hectares of forest annually which is one of the major factors contributing to environmental degradation costing the national economy a loss of about Rs1 billion per day, according to speakers at a programme held in Baghan town near Keti Bunder on Friday to mark the World Forest Day. The World […]
Forests are primary source of livelihoods for thousands of local communities and currently they were diminishing due to multiple threats. This was stated by speakers on occasion of World Forest Day observed by WWF-Pakistan under its Building Capacity on Climate Change Adaptation in Coastal Areas of Pakistan (CCAP) project at Baghan town near Keti Bunder, […]
The United Nations has allotted specific days to highlight various environmental problems, yet they’re not helping to create the required level of awareness In face of the human-environment nexus, environmental problems are intensifying as socio-economic activities gain momentum with the passage of time. To establish a relationship between development and environment, environmentalists world over are […]
People don’t trust the government to help them respond to climate change. With Pakistan becoming increasing vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, like floods and droughts, a recent BBC Climate Asia Report has found that around 72 per cent of people don’t trust the government to help them respond to these challenges. They have […]
ISLAMABAD: The country’s first-ever media manual for journalists covering environment and climate change will be unveiled by Senate Sub-committee on Environment today (Monday). The Media Manual, aimed at promoting cleaner environment in the country will be launched by a sub-committee of Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights. “It is our responsibility to facilitate journalists to […]
Karachi: In EU environmental policy there has been much more continuity than change over the last 30 years in which the European Union has adopted a diverse range of environmental measures to improve the quality of environment. This observation was made by Prof Dr Uzma Shujaat in her introductory paper which she presented as an […]
ISLAMABAD: The Indus Delta is the most vulnerable area to the challenges of climate change as it may face increased requirements of irrigation water due to higher vaporisation at elevated temperatures in the face of limited availability of water. The data prepared by Research and Development Division of Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) showed that the […]
MUZAFFARGARH: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) handed over on Thursday the first humanitarian response facility (HRF) located in Rakh Khanpur village here to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). This facility is part of a network of eight such compounds being developed by the WFP as a joint endeavour with the Pakistan government […]
ISLAMABAD: The recent disasters were a warning from nature that there is an urgent need to adopt a mechanism to face the unpredictability of climate change. This was were general view of speakers at the launching ceremony of a book ‘Malevolent Floods of Pakistan 2010-2012’ organised by Sindh Graduate Association (SGA) on Sunday. The book’s […]
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