With no long-term policies to improve greenery, water supply and transport; every year soaring temperatures KARACHI: Like every other year, this year too Karachi is slowly turning into a searing cauldron, with experts predicting a dangerous rise in temperatures from April 19th
Karachi witnessed intense heat on 21-April-2025 as the mercury soared to 40.7°C, with relative humidity recorded at 39 percent, pushing the city into the grip of a heatwave that is expected to persist through mid-week. The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) had earlier
NAWABSHAH: As Sindh has been in the grip of a heatwave for around a week, the harsh weather is taking a toll on people’s health with heatstroke and gastroenteritis on the rise in many districts and towns amid prolonged power outages. While the Sindh
ISLAMABAD: Karachi and Dhaka will be the only two cities in Asia-Pacific region among the 10 cities of the Global South that will receive eight million climate migrants by 2050 if the world warms by more than 1.5 centigrade above pre-industrial levels,
KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari was informed on 21-March-2025 that up to 400,000 homeless victim families of the 2022 severe floods in Sindh had been rehabilitated through the provision of fully built houses constructed under the initiative of the
Former federal minister for climate change Sherry Rehman on 20-March-2025 said Pakistan’s nationally determined contributions (NDCs) would be best implemented when provinces develop their own provincially determined contributions (PDCs). Sherry was speaking at a workshop organised by the British Deputy High Commission
Researchers from AKU and NYU have found that Karachi’s green space is less than half the WHO’s recommended minimum KARACHI: A groundbreaking study using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and satellite imagery has revealed a critical shortage of green spaces in Karachi, putting the
The Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa), under the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Coastal Development, organised a seminar titled “Environmental Governance and Sustainability Challenges in Sindh” at Beach Luxury Hotel, Karachi. The event was attended by guests, prominent environmental experts, industrialists,
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has signed a $5 million agreement with the European Union through the Sindh Peoples Housing for Flood Affected (SPHF) for poverty alleviation and inclusive rural development. In collaboration with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization
Seminar calls for urgent global action to prevent environmental destruction KARACHI: Capitalism’s relentless pursuit of profit has pushed the planet to the brink of disaster. The survival of life on Earth is now tied to the dismantling of this exploitative system. “Now