In a world of higher electricity demand growth, clean electricity is stepping up to the challenge. Spearheaded by exponential solar expansion, clean power is set to grow faster than demand, marking the start of a permanent decline in fossil generation. 2024 both clarified and consolidated the shape of the global …
A young Pakistani farmer, who sued his government for delaying action on climate change, has been instrumental in effecting change. A commission of officials has begun to examine and push forward government policies related to the issue, following court orders. Water scarcity and temperature shifts have repeatedly wrought havoc on …
For Akram Hussain, unprecedented monsoon floods that drenched his Hindu Kush mountain valley this year were a danger to more than just homes and crops. His 4,000-strong Kalasha people, who live in three remote valleys in north-west Pakistan, preserve an ancient way of life, including animist beliefs at odds with …
Most of the multi storey buildings in Rawalpindi are not designed according to buildings code, and may collapse if city was to be hit by a severe earthquake in future. According to a survey 99.9 % buildings in the Rawalpindi city are not quake proof and don’t have ability to …
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Monday released more than Rs 2.83 billion for the victims of earthquake. According to Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) sources, initially, the KP government has released funds for 14 districts including more than Rs 710 million for Shangla, Rs 520 million for Swat and Rs …
The Taliban encouraged aid groups to help victims of the massive earthquake in northern Afghanistan and Pakistan as rescuers struggled to form a clear picture of the damage caused by the disaster as the death toll passed 300. With large mountainous areas of Afghanistan hit and icy weather closing in, …
MINGORA, PAKISTAN – As the death toll in the massive earthquake that struck the remote Hindu Kush mountains soared above 300, officials on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistan border warned on Tuesday that casualty figures will likely leap once relief workers return from villages so remote they can only be …
Landslides in mountainous northern Pakistan caused by unseasonably heavy rain and snow have left thousands of tourists stranded, officials said on Monday, while record October rainfall hit the capital, Islamabad. The northern Kaghan, Swat and Neelum valleys were the worst hit. "For October, this has been the worst rainfall we …
A major earthquake struck the remote Afghan northeast on Monday, killing more than 200 people in Afghanistan and nearby northern Pakistan, injuring hundreds and sending shock waves as far as New Delhi, officials said. The death toll could climb in coming days because communications were down in much of the …
Whole of Northern India shakes A massive earthquake of 7.5 magnitude centred in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region shook the whole of northern India on Monday, killing at least four persons in Jammu and Kashmir and leaving over 200 people dead in Afghanistan and northern Pakistan. The shockwaves were felt as far …
A powerful earthquake struck a remote area of northeastern Afghanistan on Monday, shaking the capital Kabul and killing at least 17 people while 36 were killed in neighbouring Pakistan, officials said. The death toll could climb because communications were down in much of the rugged Hindu Kush mountain range area …
Sri Lanka has emerged as one of the cleanest countries in the region in a global Mid-Year Pollution Index for 2015. Ranking among the 12 cleanest countries in Asia, Sri Lanka comes far ahead of regional counterparts such as China, India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Malaysia, Pakistan and several other countries to …
Karachi, 2050: The sprawling megacity lies crumbling, desiccated by another deadly heatwave, its millions of inhabitants suffering life-threatening water shortages and unable to buy bread that has become too expensive to eat. It sounds like the stuff of dystopian fiction but it could be the reality Pakistan is facing. With …
Rawal Dam water, which is being supplied to citizens of Rawalpindi, is being polluted by sewerage and other pollutants of twenty five residential colonies around the dam and its tributaries. According to reports, the residential colonies in Bara Kahu are massively polluting the Rawal Dam water due to inefficiency of …
A national monitoring network will be set up to combat the illegal animal trade. The decision was taken at a World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF-Pakistan) board meeting on Sunday. Addressing the meeting, Director Hammad Naqi said the project would be funded and monitored by the USAID. Naqi said illegal …
As Nigeria celebrates news that polio is no longer an endemic in the West African country, Pakistan and its war-battered neighbour Afghanistan remain the only two countries where the disease is prevalent. The World Health Organization (WHO) said Nigeria and Africa as a whole are now closer to being certified …
With around 300,000 children of school-going age not enrolled and a high dropout rate, the state of education in government schools in Thatta and Sujawal districts is beyond dismal. Between 70 to 85 per cent of the around 3,202 schools in the two districts remain devoid of basic facilities like …
The Ministry of Climate Change has decided to take the National Forest Policy-2015 to Council of Common Interests (CCI) for approval after getting cold shoulder from chief secretaries of all the four provinces and Gilgit-Baltistan. The Ministry has rolled out first-ever policy to protect the forests by ensuring implementation of …
The tanneries in Kasur in Pakistan, where the world-famous handmade “Kasuri jutti” is made, is spreading pollution across the border in Punjab. The tanneries are dumping tonnes of hazardous chemicals into a Sutlej tributary that flows into India. This is causing serious health problems for the residents of villages in …
Air pollution is killing 3.3 million people a year worldwide, according to a new study that includes this surprise: Farming plays a large role in smog and soot deaths in industrial nations. Scientists in Germany, Cyprus, Saudi Arabia and Harvard University calculated the most detailed estimates yet of the toll …
For the past year, a steady stream of villagers has been visiting Muhammad Naeem's home in this quaint mountain town in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. They come for one reason: to see for themselves the benefits of his solar water heater. "A solar geyser does not cause respiratory diseases, it …
