ISLAMABAD (AA) – The death toll from floods in Pakistan has risen to 1,545 as 37 more people, including 18 children, died in flood-related incidents in the last three days, official statistics showed on Monday. A total of 678 people have died in Sindh since June 14, 306 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and 299 in Balochistan, […]
SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan (AA) – The international community’s sustained support in the rehabilitation and reconstruction of flood-ravaged Pakistan is a matter of justice, not just solidarity, the country’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif told Anadolu Agency in an interview on Friday. He proposed “debt swaps for climate action,R...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Just as Earth’s ozone layer is slowly recovering from a hazardous hole found in it nearly 40 years ago, this recovery is being impeded by the impact of climate change, said Jonathan Shanklin, a meteorologist at the British Antarctic Survey and one of the scientists who first discovered the ozone hole. Marking […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Thousands of panicked citizens have left a densely-populated district in southern Pakistan, following a fresh spell of floods, adding to the growing number of displaced people, officials and local media have reported. The Dadu district of southern Sindh province has been surrounded by floodwaters, leaving only one pass...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan said on Friday that the recent destructive flood caused more than $30 billion in damage and that the country will need international assistance to rebuild its infrastructure. Major-General Zafar Iqbal, the coordinator of the National Flood Response and Coordination Center (NFRCC), told Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif an...
ANKARA (AA) – The rise of extreme heat and forest fires will likely worsen air quality and put human health in danger over the course of this century, according to a report released on Wednesday. The link between air pollution and climate change will bring an additional “climate penalty” for hundreds of millions of people [&h...
Madyan, Pakistan (AFP): Misery is mounting for millions trapped by the worst floods in Pakistan’s history, which have have submerged a third of Pakistan and claimed at least 1,300 lives. United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has called it “a monsoon on steroids” as he launched an international appeal on August 30 for $160 mil...
Paris, France (AFP): Rich carbon polluters should feel “moral pressure” to help fund climate-vulnerable nations wracked by weather extremes such as Pakistan, where monstrous flooding has caused devastation, diplomats and observers have said. Torrential monsoon rains have killed more than a thousand, left a third of Pakistan under w...
Bali, Indonesia (AFP): The Group of 20 chair Indonesia has warned environment officials from the world’s leading economies that they must act together to combat a warming planet or risk plunging it into “uncharted territory”. The call came at a one-day meeting on the resort island of Bali, at the end of a month in […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – The death toll from massive floods caused by unprecedented monsoon rains in Pakistan has risen to 1,138. The most deaths were reported from southern Sindh province, with 402 fatalities, according to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). At least 258 people have died in the northwestern Kyber Pakhtunk...
