KARACHI: While courts continue do an admirable job in prosecuting violent criminals, there seems to be a glaring lack of ‘green courts’ in the province as environmental rights offenders go unpunished. In April 2012, Mushir Alam, who was the provincial chief justice at the time, announced that special green benches will be established in the […]
Karachi: Lawmakers expressed serious concern during the provincial assembly session on Tuesday over the discharge of toxic waste into Manchar Lake. During a question hour on issues concerning the fisheries department, Fisheries Minister Jam Khan Shoro evaded the opposition lawmakers’ queries on whether the water of Manchar Lake was fit for human consumption or not. […]
LAHORE: The World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan (WWF-Pakistan) has launched a skills development project for youth ‘Green Skills Project’ in Islamabad. The project’s objective is to impart knowledge about renewable/sustainable energy, livestock management and crop administration to 300 provincial participants to achieve sustainable financial and environmental results. Minister of State for Education Trainings and Standards […]
ISLAMABAD: After the German mountaineer Ralf Dujmovits and his team member called it quits in the first week of January out of fear of avalanche exactly above their camp, two Italian and Polish winter expeditions on Nanga Parbat are also presumably packing up. This was confirmed by Karrar Haidri, the member, Executive Council, Alpine Club […]
You know when a social issue has ballooned to dangerous levels when box standard macroeconomists start talking about it. Otherwise, why would people, who generally argue about real effective exchange rate, inflation-adjusted terms of trade and what not in their dreams, suddenly start talking about something like climate? Anyhow, its good that they do talk […]
Karachi: “We should shun mediocrity and refrain from making attempts to break Guinness World Records by planting mangroves that disappear the next year,” said senior environmentalist Rahat Najam during an interview with The News on World Wetlands Day, which was observed across the globe on February 2. She talked about scarcity of agricultural water, fast […]
Karachi: The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Pakistan has demanded a thorough environmental impact assessment (EIA) before approving new nuclear plants in the metropolis. During a meeting of the executive committee of the IUCN Pakistan national committee at the IUCN country office in Karachi on Wednesday, Malik Amin Aslam was elected chairman of […]
KARACHI: Environmentalists believe that it is vital to address issues related to climate change on an urgent basis, especially keeping in mind how the country has been affected by them in recent times. Pakistan is extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change because of its geographical location, high levels of pollution, low technological and […]
By: Amar Guriro KARACHI: Agriculture is extremely vulnerable to climate change globally and in Pakistan, which is the one of the worst hit countries of climate change, agriculture is badly affected, said climate change experts and nature conservationists on Saturday. Addressing a conference on climate change organised by the Habib University, experts said water availability, […]
ISLAMABAD: Scientists from developing countries gathered in Islamabad on Wednesday to deliberate on matters relating to climate change and called for fostering extensive international cooperation among the countries of the South for meeting common global challenges pertaining to this phenomenon. These consensus views were expressed during the third meeting of COMSATS’ International Thematic Research Group […]
The livelihood of people in Thar is dependent on monsoon rainfall, but due to climate change, the monsoon pattern has changed. Usually crops are cultivated after the first spell and grow after two more spells of rainfall during the monsoon season, which starts from mid-June and lasts till mid-August. Thar receives annual precipitation of between […]
We all know that forests act as carbon sinks; trees absorb carbon while they are growing, and store it while they are mature. They release it when they decay or are burnt. Hence the cutting of trees and the clearing of forests around the world are causing the emission of heat trapping carbon dioxide into […]
FAISALABAD: “Pakistan is among the countries worst hit by global climate change,” experts at a seminar organised by the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad (UAF) said on Thursday. Chairing the inaugural session of Climate Changes: Adaption Strategies to Ensure Food Security, UAF Vice Chancellor Iqrar Ahmad Khan said melting glaciers were causing floods. “This can cause […]
KARACHI: Environment experts have called for incorporating scientific principles of protecting the coast in development projects being undertaken along it, as coastal erosion according to them has aggravated in the areas where unplanned construction has been undertaken. There was a need for a policy to deal with the situation, they said while speaking at a […]
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