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 …
Deputy Commissioner Agha Shahnawaz Babar has informed that the water of Keenjhar Lake is drinkable after filtration process, the proper monitoring and filtration of water is being also carried out by the District Administration. In this regard, a special team headed by Dr S M Siddiqui arrived from Karachi has …
This study is based on both the recent and the predicted twenty first century climatic and hydrological changes over the mountainous Upper Indus Basin (UIB), which are influenced by snow and glacier melting. Conformal-Cubic Atmospheric Model (CCAM) data for the periods 1976–2005, 2006–2035, 2041–2070, and 2071–2100 with RCP4.5 and RCP8.5; …
KETI BUNDER, Pakistan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For fisherman Sammar Dablo, it was as if "the seawater stole our homes" when land erosion forced his village to relocate further inland on Pakistan's south coast. The people of the fan-shaped Indus Delta, where the Indus River meets the Arabian Sea, are …
KOHAT: The people living in the vicinity of Kohat Cement Factory have complained that dust and fumes emitting from the factory kilns are causing serious diseases among them. A jirga of local elders, in a statement issued here on Sunday, said that emissions from the two kilns of the factory …
The provincial government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has passed a Bill from the provincial assembly to consolidate the laws relating to protection, preservation, conservation and management of wildlife and Biodiversity in the province. The aims and objectives of the Act to be come into force at once and extended to the …
KARACHI: Clean drinking water and better sanitation — the two key reasons whose absence exacerbate health indicators and spread diarrhoea — are still hard to come by in Sindh, it emerged on Sunday. Diarrhoea continued to hit children in many Sindh districts, including Khairpur Mirs from where the Sindh chief …
The public transport sector of the country’s largest city is on the verge of collapse owing to a history of failure, negligence, inefficiency and lack of follow-through in both government and public-private partnership projects, says a report. The report, titled ‘Karachi: the transport crisis’, has been compiled by renowned city …
ISLAMABAD (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Amid a worsening energy crisis, Pakistan has approved the use of grid-connected solar energy, rooftop solar installations and mortgage financing for home solar panels to boost uptake of clean energy in the country. The government has also reversed course and eliminated a 32.5 percent tax …
Thick mangroves have long protected Karachi, southern Pakistan's sprawling metropolis, from battering by the Arabian Sea, but pollution, badly managed irrigation and years of illegal logging have left this natural barrier in a parlous state. Experts fear that loss of the natural barrier formed by the mangroves could put the …
PESHAWAR - At least 12 labourers died after a marble mine collapsed in Ziarat area of Mohmand Agency. Sources said the labourers were busy in excavation when the mine collapsed burying scores of them and two vehicles as well. The sources said that at least twelve bodies have been recovered …
ISLAMABAD: The government finalised on Friday a plan to set up gas-based power projects in Sindh and Punjab of 5,600MW, with those in Hyderabad and Sukkur scheduled to start producing about 2,000MW by May this year. The plan was firmed up at a meeting of a ministerial committee headed by …
The unprecedented floods of 2010 in Pakistan highlighted the necessity of a well-calibrated hydrological model of the Indus upper catchment for a comprehensive flood risk assessment. However, this modelling was an extremely challenging exercise because of the lack of hydrometeorological data, which are difficult to collect due to the geography …
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cabinet in Pakistan, decided to lift the over two decades long ban on forest harvesting besides managing forests along scientific lines in line with a working plan made by the government. Read more in November 2014 edition of the Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Pakistan ENVIRONMENT …
Islamabad—In its ongoing anti-encroachment campaign, the District Administration has cleared land of National Highway Authority (NHA) from encroachers in Rawat area of the Federal Capital. According to detail, Assistant Commissioner, Rural, Amna Rafique, conducted anti-encroachment operation in Rawat area and cleared the encroached land of the National Highway Authority. A …
Islamabad—On the direction of Chairman CDA, Maroof Afzal, the Environment Wing of the authority has imposed more than Rs.200,000 fine on people involved in illegal tree cutting in the capital during the last two months. Member environment, Mustafain Kazmi talking to media said that illegal cutting, transportation and sale of …
Islamabad—Using various tactics to entice people, especially youth, tobacco industry has been killing over 100,000 Pakistanis every year. Around 1200 children initiate smoking daily while the government feeding on the annual revenue of Rs15 billion paid by the industry, is indifferent to their plight. Hundreds of visitors, mostly health professionals …
LAHORE - The government is perhaps towing the policy of destruction after construction. The Traffic Engineering and Planning Agency (Tepa) has started digging the newly-constructed Ferozpur Road to build a bridge on the Samanabad Nullah – one of the portions of LOS-Multan Road Dual Carriageway. The digging has deeply disturbed …
Rawalpindi - As the un-availability of natural gas marred the lives of people in chilly weather, the logger mafia is out on the dangerous mission of stealing woods from forests illegally and to sell it out at the hands of wood-sellers in various areas of the division, reliable sources told …
KARACHI: In the wake of below average rainfall in Thar in recent years, the Sindh government has planned a series of water, food and livestock projects under a strategy to end water shortfall in the drought-hit desert district, it emerged on Wednesday. Officials in the Sindh government said the death …
KARACHI: Provincial health authorities on Wednesday confirmed another polio case in Sindh — a 10-month-old girl from Sanghar — bringing the tally to 28 cases this year. Officials in the expanded programme on immunisation (EPI) in Sindh said Pooja, daughter of Umeedo of Sanghar district, was the latest victim whose …
