ISTANBUL (AA) – Indonesia and Norway have signed a new agreement for the protection of rainforests. The deal was signed by Norwegian Climate and Environment Minister Espen Barth Eide and his Indonesian counterpart Siti Nurbaya Bakar in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta. According to the deal, Norway will send Jakarta an initial $56 million pay...
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...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visited flood-battered areas in Pakistan on Saturday, calling upon the international community to act swiftly to assist Islamabad in dealing with the devastation caused by torrential rains and massive flooding. In the first leg of his two-day visit to Pakistan, Guterres flew to Suk...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – As floodwaters recede in various inundated areas across Pakistan, the country braces for a string of secondary disasters, which experts warn could be “more disastrous and lingering.” From disease outbreaks to severely damaged infrastructure and the looming threat of food security, the South Asian nuclear country ...
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...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistani election authorities postponed crucial by-elections in 13 constituencies across the country on Thursday, citing devastating floods and terrorism as reasons for the decision. The Pakistan Election Commission said in a statement that because of the devastating flood, the government is unable to provide security at poll...
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...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – The death toll from devastating floods across Pakistan has jumped to 1,355, with 12 fresh casualties reported in the past 24 hours, official statistics showed on Wednesday. Of the fresh fatalities, six were reported from Sindh, whereas three people lost their lives in flood-related mishaps in Balochistan and two in Khy...
LONDON (AA) – Food prices in Europe that have already reached alarming levels in a year due to the boom in demand after the coronavirus pandemic, growing supply chains issues, the Russia-Ukraine war, and surging energy and logistics costs are expected to rise further in the coming period due to the climate crisis. Euro-area annual [&hell...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – The death toll from ravaging floods in Pakistan reached 1,325, with 11 more fatalities reported over the past 24 hours, the country’s national disaster agency said on Monday. All fresh casualties were reported from the southern province of Sindh, where a fresh spell of floods has inundated more land in the ...
