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Once again, monsoon rains have inundated vast stretches of Pakistan. Villages lie submerged, farmland ruined and families displaced. Such calamities are often described as “acts of God.” However, evidence increasingly shows ...
Floods are not new to Pakistan. Since the catastrophic deluge of 2010 that inundated a fifth of the nation to the record monsoon flood of 2022 that displaced 33 million people, the country has witnessed time and again how rising...
IN reporting on floods, four terms have been used constantly. They have traditional planning-related meanings, which can no longer be applied to them because of the phenomenon of climate change. These are: ‘master plan’, ‘...
KARACHI When the rains came this year, the fields in southern Punjab turned into shallow lakes overnight. Families marked the rising water on their walls, livestock was shifted to rooftops, and crops that had taken months of lab...
For most of its existence, humankind has tried to make sense of, cursed, battled, and at times even invoked natural calamities over which it had little control. This unpredictability and uncontrollability stemmed mainly from the...
LAHORE: As rescue and relief operations get underway, Sialkot, Narowal and Jhang have emerged as the three worst flood-affected districts across Punjab so far, according to a Punjab’s Provincial Disaster Management Authority (...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s agriculture sector could mitigate and adapt to climate change through the use of nuclear technology, according to a recent assessment mission under the Atoms4Food Initiative — the first of its kind in A...
ISLAMABAD: Global climate finance provided by multilateral development banks (MDBs) rose by 10 per cent in 2024, reaching a record $137 billion, with the bulk directed to low and middle-income economies, according to a new repor...
LAHORE: While water levels have begun to recede significantly in some areas of south Punjab, with the Jalalpur Pirwala and Alipur tehsils of Multan declared safe after a major flood wave passed through Head Panjnad, of...
LAHORE: The Punjab government has approved the procurement of 10 airlift drones following the successful deployment of initial units in flood-ravaged South Punjab areas, particularly Multan. Ongoing monsoon floods have displa...