LAHORE: As the coal-powered plants in Rajasthan, India, have been ascribed as main source behind the recent deadly Karachi heat wave, the fears have risen for the impact of Thar coal projects on environment. According to Greenpeace International, a global enjoinment watchdog, coal-fired power plants are the biggest source of man-made carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, […]
Islamabad: Federal Minister for Climate Change, Senator Mushahidullah Khan has directed Pakistan Environmental Protection Ageny (Pak-EPA) to address the environmental compliance of the Islamabad Expressway expansion project, which was inaugurated recently by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The minister took serious notice of the alleged violation of Section 12 of the Pakistan Environmental Protection Act-1997 (PEPA-1997) […]
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Climate Change has so far failed to enforce the National Environmental Quality Standards (NEQS) requiring it to introduce Euro-II compliant vehicles and diesel in the country. The NEQS for motor vehicles were notified in 2009 and the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources had committed to ensuring supply of Euro-II compliant […]
KARACHI: The loss city’s freshwater bodies over the past three decades has disturbed the port city’s overall natural atmosphere and beauty. “There were around 20 freshwater wetlands in different areas [of Karachi],” recalled World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan’s technical adviser Muhammad Moazzam Khan. There were different-sized lakes in parts of the city, such as Gulshan-e-Iqbal, […]
Karachi: Speakers representing academia, research institutions, Sindh government and civil society on Tuesday emphasised the need to encourage the youth of universities to take up the issues of climate change through research and focus on threats to natural resources due to climatic variations. They were speaking at the launching ceremony of the National Climate Change […]
KARACHI: People at a public hearing held at a hotel on Monday expressed doubts over the capacity, authority and influence of the Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa) to carry out post-EIA (environmental impact assessment) monitoring of development projects and to ensure that public and private organisations comply with environmental laws and fulfil the commitments they […]
KARACHI: Participants in a workshop held on Wednesday at a local hotel urged the government to make the climate change issue part of the overall development policy of the province as the phenomenon was affecting humans and environment in its entirety. They also underlined the need for research to study impacts of climate change. The […]
KHAIRPUR: India, Pakistan, China and Iran are the world’s most polluted countries while Karachi is the most environmentally degraded city of Pakistan. This was stated by Prof Mohammad Sharif Shaikh, chairman of the geography department of Shah Abdul Latif University (Salu) Khairpur, while quoting the World Health Organization’s (WHO) reports for years 2008-13 at an […]
FAISALABAD: “Raising awareness among citizens on the role they play in destroying the environment is the need of the hour,” Environment Protection Agency District Officer Shaukat Hayat said on Friday. He said the world population was estimated to reach 9.6 billion by 2050. “We will need more planets like earth if we fail to protect […]
Karachi: It is the collective responsibility of the State and the society to not only ensure protection of land, air and water from pollution but also raise awareness among masses regarding consequent hazards. These views were expressed by Waqar Ahmed, an official of the Sindh Environmental Protection Authority (SEPA) on Thursday at a seminar titled […]
Karachi: Today, June 5, has been designated as the World Environment Day. One is in a quandary to decide as to whether the day should be celebrated or solemnly observed. Perhaps, if we were to rack our brains and ponder the question, the latter would be the answer. In fact, the perceptive among us would […]
Karachi: Pakistan has over the decades witnessed extreme climate variations due to natural as well as anthropogenic hazards. These observations were made by University of Karachi Institute of Environmental Studies Prof Aamir Alamgir. According to Alamgir the changes were drastic enough to have affected monsoon rainfall patterns and had made Sindh susceptible to storms, cyclones, […]
Karachi: The National Forum for Environment & Health (NFEH) in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme has announced that it will hold different functions from June 1 to 7 in connection with World Environment Day. NFEH President Muhammad Naeem Qureshi said in a statement that his forum had constituted a network of over 20 […]
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 […]
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