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 …
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Thursday scrapped the project envisaging an elevated expressway from Gulberg to Motorway-II after the Punjab government failed to justify the urgency being shown in acquiring people’s properties for it. Allowing hundreds of petitions filed against the project, a full bench also set aside all …
KARACHI: The Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday directed the provincial chief secretary to submit a report on the factual position regarding the provision of land for the installation of a plant to treat sewerage water before its disposal into the sea. A two-member bench, comprising justices Amir Hani Muslim and …
LAHORE (PR): A high level outreach event was held in Planning & Development Department Wednesday to launch the 5th Assessment Report (AR5) of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC). The event was presided over by Chairman P&D;, Irfan Elahi which was attended by eminent officials from different provincial departments, academic …
KARACHI: National and international health experts at a two-day research symposium on cancer that opened at the Aga Khan University on Wednesday expressed their concern over increase in lung and breast cancer cases in Pakistan and concluded that the chance of one developing cancer mostly depended on one’s lifestyle. The …
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notices to Centre and the provinces while directing the submission of a written reply in the court during the hearing of petition filed for the construction of Kalabagh Dam. A three-member bench of the top court headed by Justice Saqib Nisar heard the …
Public confidence in vaccination is vital to the success of immunisation programmes worldwide. Understanding the dynamics of vaccine confidence is therefore of great importance for global public health. Few published studies permit global comparisons of vaccination sentiments and behaviours against a common metric. This article presents the findings of a …
Asia experienced the most weather and climate-related disasters in the world between 2000 and 2008, says the fifth assessment report of the International Panel for Climate Change’s (IPCC). It says the region also suffered the second highest proportion of global economic losses. The report was launched on Tuesday at a …
MITHI: Three more children died in Mithi area of drought-hit Tharparkar district in Sindh on Tuesday. The death toll has reached to 180 due to food shortage in the desert district of Thar during current year. The area continues to suffer food shortages due to severe drought for a long …
KARACHI: The Sindh health department has finally constituted a 16-member commission for the control and treatment of HIV and Aids in Sindh a year after the Sindh HIV and Aids Control, Treatment and Protection Act, 2013 was passed, it emerged on Tuesday. However, the names of commission members have not …
ISLAMABAD: As another polio case has been confirmed by the Polio Virology Laboratory at the National Institute of Health (NIH), the total count for the year 2015 has risen to 10. An official of Ministry of National Health Services said the new case was detected from Khyber Agency of the …
Provincial Minister for Agriculture Dr Farrukh Javed has said that the high yielding hybrid maize seed, jointly evolved by the breeders of Maize & Millet Research Institute Sahiwal and the experts of Punjab Seed Corporation, is no doubt a greatest achievement, which would not only gear up the growth of …
ISLAMABAD/RAWALPINDI: Capital Development Authority (CDA) will be planting more than 300,000 ornamental, fruit trees and saplings during spring tree plantation campaign. CDA Environment Wing arranged a tree plantation campaign wherein Member Environment, Syed Mustafain Kazmi alongwith more than 300 scouts planted hundreds of saplings, said a press release issued here. …
Worsening drought has led to over 80 percent of water resources in Pakistan's southern Tharparker district becoming unfit for people to drink, a new study says. That has led to plans by the Sindh provincial government to invest 5.4 billion Pakistani rupees ($53 million) in installing 750 solar-powered reverse osmosis …
The WWF-Pakistan released its report on climate change titled Climate Change Adaptation in the Indus Ecoregion: A Micro-Econometric Study of the Determinants, Impact and Cost Effectiveness of Adaptation Strategies. The report, produced in collaboration with the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and the Lahore University of Management …
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has installed third generation earthquake monitoring instruments in the various cities. Official sources said that the monitoring instruments were installed at Quetta, Khuzdar, Zhob, Turbat, Karachi, Chitral, Cherat, Katas, Muzaffarabad, Balakot, Lahore, Fort Manro, Islamabad, Tarbela, Gilgit, Skardu, Patan, Umarkot and Nagarparker. Besides that, …
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has reinstated its ministry for climate change, suggesting the government plans to pay more attention to the issue as countries prepare a new international deal to curb global warming. In 2013, when the same government came to power, it downgraded the ministry to a division, removing its ability …
ISLAMABAD (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Pakistan has reinstated its ministry for climate change, suggesting the government plans to pay more attention to the issue as countries prepare a new international deal to curb global warming. In 2013, when the same government came to power, it downgraded the ministry to a …
LAHORE: The district officer for Environment has been directed to take action against stone-crushing factories that are yet to implement orders of an Environment Tribunal passed in 2012. The decision was taken last week at a meeting chaired by Environment Secretary Muhammad Iqbal Chauhan. He said that action would be …
With far-reaching consequences like food scarcity, climate change is a major security challenge and countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh can take lessons from the Arab Spring that was triggered by high food prices Could Pakistan become destabilised because of climate change? Could the continuous cycles of floods and droughts result …
