The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Severe floods in India have affected more than 1.6 million people, buried hundreds of villages and almost submerged a national park, forcing wildlife to seek refuge on roads, authorities said on Wednesday. With the weather office forecasting heavy rain for at least another 48 hours, the outlook is grim for …
MORANG: Residents of Jante VDC in Morang district have been deprived of drinking water for the past few days after drinking water pipes were swept away by the flooded Teli Rivulet. According to Dilli Biswokarma, Chairman of the Jante Drinking Water and Sanitation Users Committee, as many as 1,200 households …
The economic value placed on the ecosystem services provided by mangroves is estimated to be US $194,000 (£148,000) per hectare Sri Lanka's prime minister has said mangroves' ability to swiftly absorb carbon make the forests vital in the fight against climate change. His comments come on a day marking the …
The government has formed a four-member committee to conduct a detailed study on the need of a climate change centre. A meeting held at the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Minister last week decided to form the committee which will come up with a report detailing the …
Islamabad—Despite a large number of water filtration plants installed at various points, water quality in the twin cities remains a big issue. Its quality and unchecked supply continue to pose challenges to the Water And Sanitation Agency (WASA) in Rawalpindi as well as CDA’s Water Directorate in the federal capital. …
RAWALPINDI: Smoke emitting from small factories and commercial units in several areas of Rawalpindi city has not only been causing environmental pollution but has also been contributing to fatal diseases. The Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) has allowed several small factories and commercial units to operate in many areas without keeping …
Back in 1967 when the country attained self-sufficiency in fish production, the haors of Sunamganj produced one lakh tonnes of fish a year. Forty-eight years later, the country saw a drastic fall in the production of this natural resource, as only 22,692 tonnes of fish was collected from these haors …
Calls to public health hotlines can predict dengue fever outbreaks two or three weeks earlier than local hospitals can confirm them, according to a new study from Pakistan. The study looked at 300,000 calls to a health hotline in Lahore over two years. By asking callers to describe their symptoms …
ISLAMABAD: After Islamabad, Lahore has the least number of income-poor households in the country. The first ever Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) for the country categorises as poor only 4.3 percent of the city’s households. The number of its income-poor households has come down from 10.3 percent in 2008-09 to 4.3 …
The planet’s largest mangrove forest could be facing serious trouble in the form of two new coal-fired power plants, environmentalists say — and they’re urging the United Nations to draw greater attention to the issue. A handful of environmental groups, including Friends of the Earth, the Sierra Club and 350.org, …
Panaji: Scientists from the ASEAN (association of South East Asian nations) met on Wednesday, to discuss how they can collaborate and develop methodologies for risk assessment of ballast water management. The port to port transportation of ships from all over the world usually leads to their ballast water being exchanged. …
Novelist Amitav Ghosh examines the inability at the level of literature, history and politics to grasp the scale and violence of climate change in his new book, his first major book of nonfiction since "In an Antique Land" of 1992. "The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable", published by …
As many as 140 million people in Bangladesh may be at risk from a huge earthquake as pressure builds beneath the surface of one of the world's most densely populated nations, US and Bangladeshi scientists say. Sediment flows from the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers have layered parts of the country …
A potentially giant earthquake may be building up beneath Bangladesh and eastern India and could endanger as many as 140 million people, a study said on Monday. The earthquake is not imminent but inevitable as sections of the earth's crust press against one another, according to the study published in …
The cabinet yesterday approved in principle the draft of “The Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (Bari) Act, 2016”' aiming to increase the capacity of the institute alongside streamlining its research activities. At a weekly meeting in Bangladesh Secretariat with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair, it also approved proposals to …
Negligence on the part of District Forest Office to take action against the tree fellers has resulted in rampant deforestation in Rautahat forest areas of late. The DFO has more than 100 staffers to check logging and loss of forest products. Felling of saal trees, however, continues unabated. Timber smugglers …
Deputy Prime Minister Kamal Thapa has announced the District Development Committee (DDC), Chitwan, as environment-friendly office. Also the Minister for Federal Affairs and Local Development, Thapa announced this by unveiling the statue of "Chitwan Aama' installed in the DDC premises and planting a sapling of red sandalwood. On the occasion, …
KARACHI: Despite growing global concerns over air pollution and the fact that Karachi has been declared the fifth most polluted city in a World Health Organisation (WHO) report released early this year, the government seems to be in no hurry to re-start environmental monitoring stations that have remained idle for …
In a landmark case, seven-year-old Rabab Ali has sued the government for violating her rights, and the rights of her generation, to a healthy life. "I want the government to give me and my friends a safe environment to grow up in. I want it to help me conserve it …
If everything goes fine, Nepal is poised to double its tiger population by 2018, four years earlier than the targeted year 2022. As per The Global Tiger Recovery Plan, which was endorsed in the St Petersburg Declaration on Tiger conservation in 2010, Nepal committed to double its tiger population by …
