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 …
ISLAMABAD: Officials of UNDP held a meeting with private forest owners and other stakeholders from Murree, Kahuta and Hazara Division of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) to find a way of compensating them in order to stop the cutting of trees. The UNDP is endeavouring to find some mode of compensation under the …
KARACHI: The Sindh Environmental Protection Agency’s (Sepa) recent approval of two separate Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) reports on the coal terminal being operated by the Karachi Port Trust (KPT) fails to take into account serious concerns over the damage it has already caused to public health and environment, it emerged …
Hundreds of trees were destroyed on Tuesday in a fire in Block-1 of forests near Shorkot Cantonment. The fire erupted around afternoon and engulfed a huge area within a few hours. Talking to The Express Tribune, Abdul Qayyum, who lives nearby, said: “I saw smoke coming out of the forest …
The recent earthquake in Nepal has once again reminded us of the risks posed by natural disasters in our region. In Pakistan, approximately 3 million people are affected by natural catastrophes each year, which equates to approximately 1.6 percent of the total population. According to an analysis of historical natural …
Federal Minister for Climate Change Senator Mushahid Ullah Khan has said that Pakistan has achieved the target of 12% protected areas under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on Environmental Sustainability. "However, the target to increase the forest cover to 6% is yet to be achieved, and it requires dedicated window …
The recent earthquake in Nepal has once again reminded us of the risks posed by natural disasters in South Asia region. In Pakistan, approximately 3 million people are affected by natural catastrophes each year, which equates to approximately 1.6 per cent of the total population. According to an analysis of …
LAHORE: Pakistanis spent an estimated $2.3 billion a year on everything from candles, to kerosene lamps, to battery-powered torches. They use this mix of technologies to light their homes and businesses to compensate for the intense power shortage in the country. The power shortfall has greatly upset the routine life …
ISLAMABAD: Medical practitioners have said that every year over 80,000 Pakistanis get different heart diseases and after every two minutes a countryman suffers from heart attack. They were addressing the participants of a workshop ‘enhanced pictorial health warning in Pakistan’ on Sunday jointly organised by the Society for Alternative Media …
LAHORE: Through a successful operation against land grabbers in Rajanpur District, 8,896 acres of land of the Forest Department and 6,916 acres state land has been retrieved in Rajanpur District. The operation was launched on February 4 on the instructions of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, and 100% target of …
ISLAMABAD: Global Climate Risk Index-2015 said that five out of top 10 countries most affected by climate change-induced disasters during 1994-2013 are located in Asia Pacific. Climate Change Minister Mushahidullah Khan said that in UN’s recent report “Economic Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific” almost all Asia-Pacific countries - …
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has approved Rs 160 million grant-in-aid for Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) to supply water through 1000 tankers to the areas facing acute water shortage in the city. The decision was taken at a meeting held here on Thursday to discuss water …
LAHORE: As the queues for compressed natural gas (CNG) grow longer at the end of every closure, one company has come up with a solution out of the deepening energy crisis for public transport, an electric rickshaw. Rickshaws offer one of the cheaper and convenient means of public transport in …
LAHORE, Pakistan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Punjab province is set to launch an innovation for water-short Pakistan: Solar-powered ATMs that dispense clean water when a smart card is scanned. The two-foot-square prototype machine looks and functions like an ATM, but dispenses water instead of cash. Users are issued a card …
UNITED NATIONS - Pakistan Wednesday told the United Nations that it had achieved the Millennium Development Goal environmental sustainability target of 12 per cent protected areas and was working to increase forest cover to 6 per cent. In addition, Climate Change Minister Mushahidullah Khan also said that Pakistan was promoting …
Exporting e-waste to Asia worked out 10 times cheaper than processing it in within these countries." Much of the 40 million tonnes of electronic waste produced around the world — old smartphones, TVs, laptops and obsolete kitchen appliances — finds its way illegally to Asia and Africa every year, says …
Up to 90% of the world’s electronic waste, worth nearly $19bn (£12bn), is illegally traded or dumped each year, according to the UN Environment Programme (Unep). Computers and smart phones are among the ditched items contributing to this 41m tonne e-waste mountain, which could top 50m tonnes by 2017, Unep …
Climate warming is expected to induce treelines to advance to higher elevations. Empirical studies in diverse mountain ranges, however, give evidence of both advancing alpine treelines and rather insignificant responses. The inconsistency of findings suggests distinct differences in the sensitivity of global treelines to recent climate change. It is still …
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan is far ahead of India in improving access to water, sanitation and in eroding inequalities for its citizens, according to a US university study. While Pakistan was ranked five in the new index developed by The Water Institute at the University of North Carolina yesterday at Chapel …
Federal Minister for Climate Change, Senator Mushahidullah Khan, has warned that Pakistan's disease burden and its overall impact on socio-economic development gains made in recent years will further escalate. This will lead to rise in avoidable deaths in coming years because of rapidly changing and erratic climate. "Most of such …
An earthquake of mild intensity jolted Swat and adjoining areas here on Sunday morning but no loss of property or life was reported. According to geological wing of Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) tremors measuring 4.2 on Richter scale were felt in Swat and surrounding areas. People of the areas where …
