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Business & Economy

Dutch court to rule on Shell appeal against landmark climate order

Ruling comes as the COP29 climate summit takes place in Baku, Azerbaijan

Published 11 Nov, 2024 08:59pm

Pakistan

Karachi to face shorter winter season this year, PMD says

Experts predict this winter will be milder than usual across Pakistan

Published 29 Oct, 2024 09:25am

Business & Economy

Pakistan formally seeks $1b from IMF to manage external shocks, says finance minister

Country is also in talks with Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank for a credit enhancement

Updated 25 Oct, 2024 12:21am

Business & Economy

Pakistan requests additional $2b from IMF to tackle climate change challenges

Pakistan requested an additional $1.5 billion loan from IMF on Sept 27 due to climate issues

Published 21 Oct, 2024 03:49pm

World

India’s green energy wind drive hits desert herders hard

Farmers complain bitterly that the turbines were built on community grazing land

Published 26 Aug, 2024 03:51pm

World

Mediterranean heatwave ‘virtually impossible’ without climate change: scientists

Beyond the Mediterranean, intense heat reached Paris this week

Published 31 Jul, 2024 07:18pm

World

Climate change boosts wildfire, pest threats to world’s forests: UN report

The report is calling for innovation in the forestry sector

Published 23 Jul, 2024 11:27am

Pakistan

Why does the sea begin raging around Hawkes Bay in July?

Several videos of rushing waters emerge each year

Updated 11 Jul, 2024 09:10pm

World

June hottest on record, beating 2023 high: EU climate monitor

The fresh high came at the midway point of a year marked by climate extremes

Published 08 Jul, 2024 09:26am

Pakistan

Several areas in GB inundated due to glacier melting

Residents are facing threat of evacuation

Published 07 Jul, 2024 02:13pm

Pakistan

The midwife on the frontline of climate change on Pakistan’s islands

Girls on the impoverished islands are often wed as young as 16

Published 02 Jul, 2024 11:28am

World

Delhi swelters in record heat for second day

Local government authorities have set curbs on water supply, citing a shortage

Published 29 May, 2024 04:36pm

Pakistan

Pakistan records ‘wettest April’ in more than 60 years

April rainfall was recorded at 59.3 millimetres, ‘excessively above’ normal average of 22.5 millimetres

Published 04 May, 2024 04:49pm

Life & Style

Fact check: Was that picture of Greta Thunberg manipulated?

Swedish climate change activist arrested by Dutch police twice on same day during The Hague protests

Published 09 Apr, 2024 06:24pm

World

Hundreds of Philippine schools suspend classes over heat danger

Heat cramps and heat exhaustion are also possible at 33-41C, according to the forecaster

Published 02 Apr, 2024 05:54pm

World

UN sounds ‘Red Alert’ as world smashes heat records in 2023

Ocean temperatures reached warmest in 65 years of data, says WMO

Published 19 Mar, 2024 07:33pm

World

In climate push, German chemical maker swaps oil for sugar

Some experts are sceptical about such an approach

Updated 10 Mar, 2024 05:30pm

World

Scientists keep ‘Doomsday Clock’ as close to midnight as ever

The 90 seconds to midnight is the theoretical point of annihilation

Published 23 Jan, 2024 09:42pm

Technology

YouTube making money off new breed of climate denial, monitoring group says

CCDH used artificial intelligence to review transcripts from 12,058 videos from the past six years

Published 16 Jan, 2024 04:30pm

Technology

Tuvalu: A sinking nation that is replicating itself in metaverse

The state is estimated to go submerge by 2050

Published 15 Jan, 2024 07:33pm

World

2023 was world’s hottest year on record, EU scientists confirm

Climate change, El Nino fuel record temperatures in 2023

Published 09 Jan, 2024 05:25pm

World

COP28 forced into overtime as fossil fuel phase-out divides countries

OPEC secretary general had urged its members to reject any deal that targeted fossil fuels

Published 12 Dec, 2023 11:16pm

Pakistan

Kalabagh youth saves 100-year old tree from being chopped down

The century-old tree has now been planted at a janazagah

Published 06 Dec, 2023 05:19pm

World

COP28 president opposes demands for phase-out of fossil fuels

Sultan Al Jaber says there is ‘no science’ behind such demands

Published 04 Dec, 2023 09:37am

Pakistan

PM Kakar hails UAE for announcing $30bn Loss and Damage Fund

Says developed countries accepted to support countries not responsible for climate damage

Published 03 Dec, 2023 08:18pm

World

Bangladesh forms multilateral partnership to mitigate effects of climate change

Platform established to lend more than $1bln to the country

Published 03 Dec, 2023 05:49pm

World

COP28: PM Kakar for executing $100bn commitments for climate change finance

Urges developed countries to take lead in implementation of climate change actions

Published 02 Dec, 2023 07:13pm

World

With 80,000 attendees, COP28 is largest UN climate summit ever

Nearly 23,500 people from official government teams attended submit this year

Published 02 Dec, 2023 08:54am

World

COP28: New $30 climate fund announced amid calls for banning fossil fuels

King Charles III cites impacts of climate change in Pakistan

Published 01 Dec, 2023 04:43pm

Pakistan

Climate change: PM Kakar calls for utilising Loss and Damage Fund on merit

Renewable energy projects can attract interest of countries

Published 30 Nov, 2023 10:34pm