Sir: This refers to the news item, ‘Experts for revival of climate change ministry’, published in your esteemed and popular paper (Daily Times, January 7, 2014). Besides the use of an enormous amount of coal, fast increasing traffic density is the other substantial contributing factor to air pollution and the resulting increase in fog duration/intensity […]
The year 2013 was an important and worrying one when it comes to climate change, because the UN’s global body of scientists who collaborate on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) told us clearly in a report that was released at the end of September that global warming today is the result of human […]
In 2013, the UN’s global panel of scientists told us that global warming is the result of human activities (95 per cent confidence), effectively putting an end to the debate over whether mankind is responsible for rising temperatures or if we are undergoing yet another cyclical movement of warming caused by natural factors. Science is […]
KARACHI: Climate change adaptation needs attitudinal change at macro level and it is this uncertainty that makes climate change threatening, while its impact on the South Asian region will be acute. This was stated by the environmentalists at an inaugural session of a-two-day Mid-Term Review Workshop on Climate Change Adaptation, Water and Food Security in […]
KARACHI: The fertility of land is reducing and the situation is so worst that United Nations (UN) Food Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in collaboration with Global Soil Partnership (GSP) is observing World Soil Day as an awareness-raising platform. Soil experts in Sindh disclosed that around 40,000 hectares of fertile lands of Pakistan, majority in Sindh were […]
Climate change experts in a day-long journalist workshop on Thursday stressed upon media to mainstream the issue of climate change not just as an environmental issue, but as a development and economic challenge. The workshop titled “Taking Pakistan to COP19” was organised on the eve of UN Climate Change Conference (COP19) by LEAD Pakistan and […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is one of the top 10 countries greatly affected by the climate change as our glaciers are melting rapidly and the sea level is rising. Therefore, environmental journalism and reporting has become very important in the country. This was stated by Journalist Afia Salam during the Agahi Awards ceremony held under the title […]
ISLAMABAD: Efforts are under way in Pakistan to reduce the production and consumption of substances, which deplete the Earth’s ozone layer, by 10 per cent over the next couple of years, according to officials at the Climate Change Division. “This year, we started the process of phasing out hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) which are commonly used in […]
PESHAWAR: World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan in collaboration with the Wildlife Department Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has fixed Global Positioning System (GPS) collar to a male common leopard in Galyat area of Abbottabad district for the first time. The satellite linked collar fitted animal was later released in the vicinity of Ayubia National Park, said a news […]
KARACHI: The annual bonsai exhibition featuring more than a hundred miniature trees opened at the Zamzama Park on Friday evening. The three-day event was organised by Pakistan Bonsai Society in collaboration with the Defence Housing Authority (DHA). DHA Administrator retired brigadier Mohammad Abdullah and consul for cultural and public affairs of the Japanese consulate Hiroko […]
KARACHI: World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Pakistan, Karachi office released on Tuesday a photo of endangered Common Leopard Panthera pardus captured in Lalazar, Nathiagali. On contact, press and media relations officer WWF-Pakistan Syed Muhammad Abubakar told Daily Times that a camera installed in the wild has captured the photo. The Common Leopard Panthera pardus is an […]
ISLAMABAD: In the mid-90s, when the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Pakistan was conducting projects related to environmental rehabilitation and natural resource management in Kohistan and parts of Balochistan, the organisation faced opposition from local communities. “The society in those areas was very religious and sceptical of our work, so we tried to […]
By: Ansar Abbasi ISLAMABAD: Free foreign junkets at the cost of taxpayers’ money for journalists are over as the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) announced on Thursday that those media persons aspiring to cover the premier’s foreign tours are welcome to do so but at their own expenses, like it is done in all other countries […]
KALAM: Managing Director of Pakistan Tourism Development Cooperation (PTDC) Mir Shahjahan Khetran has said that Swat Summer Festival would help promote tourism and project soft image of the country. “Holding of such events would create a positive impression about Pakistan that would be carried forward by the tourists, particularly those coming from abroad,” he said […]
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