The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a project loan of nearly $197 million to continue rebuilding highways and bridges damaged in Pakistan's worst-ever floods in 2010. The funds will also be used to train staff in disaster management units at the National Highway Authority (NHA), giving them the ability …
DHAKA - Bangladesh on Tuesday signed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with a consortium of two Chinese firms for the installation of some $1.56 billion coal-fired power plant in the country. Officials of the consortium of the Chinese firms -- NPEC and CECC -- and the Bangladesh-China Power …
The residents of Murma settlement in Rara VDC are facing water shortage after the water sources in the area dried up because of prolonged drought. “We have been facing problems managing drinking water. One family gets only one gagri (traditional water pot) water per day,” said Dhansingh Rokaya . There …
SWAT:- An earthquake of moderate intensity jolted Swat and surrounding areas on Sunday. However, no loss of any kind was reported. According to geological wing of Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), tremors measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale were felt in Swat city and surrounding areas forcing people to rush out …
Federal Minister for Climate Change, Zahid Hamid, stressed the need for exploiting massive Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) potential to address the country’s shrinking forest cover by large-scale forestation. “The country corporate sector should divert a significant chunk of the CSR funds to strengthen the country’s ailing forestry sector, so that …
Within a span of three years, household food insecurity has fallen by over two-thirds in Bangladesh, according to a report revealed here today. The report titled "State of Food Security and Nutrition in Bangladesh-2014 food insecurity has reduced to less than a quarter of household in 2014 from over two …
LONDON – Asia has the largest number of people exposed to natural disasters, but African countries are the most vulnerable to them, largely because of political instability, corruption, poverty and inequality, a new global assessment shows. India has a billion people at risk, with China, Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan …
South Asia is in the midst of a demographic transition. For the next three decades, the growth of the region’s working age population will far outpace the growth of dependents. Close to one million individuals will enter the workforce every month. This large, economically active population can increase the region’s …
Around 35 acres of forest was destroyed on Saturday in a fire that erupted in the protected areas of the Castlereagh reservoir and Devon Falls. Police suspect that the fire has been deliberately caused by a certain group. Police said around 500 acres near the hill country water sources have …
Sri Lanka, with the help of community organizations, will launch a program to set up 10,000 environment friendly villages throughout the country by 2020. Sri Lankan Cabinet Ministers has approved a proposal made by President Maithripala Sirisena to sign the Paris Agreement on Climate Change to minimize the emission of …
The National Committee to Protect Shipping, Roads and Railways (NCPSRR) on Sunday urged the concerned authorities to take necessary steps to stop plying of vessels through the Shela River in Sundarbans to keep its biodiversity intact. NCPSRR, a green and civil rights body, has been campaigning long for an environmentally …
Society for Conservation and Protection of Environment’s (SCOPE) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and the country’s prominent environmentalist, Tanveer Arif, said on Sunday that bad governance was behind Pakistan’s massive deforestation was colossal loss to green economy. In an interview to Pakistan Press International (PPI) at his office, he said Pakistan’s …
RAWALPINDI: Waste collection mechanism may have improved with award of a multi-million dollar contract to a Turkish firm, the Rawalpindi authorities are yet to find a sustainable solution to dispose of the waste. Al-Buraq, a Turkish firm, was handed over the task of collecting and disposing of solid waste in …
In her home in the remote Hunza valley, Gul Mehreen smiles as she places a tea kettle on the electric stove in her immaculate kitchen. As she makes tea for guests, the farmer jokes about "how amazingly enjoyable" cooking has become since a small-scale hydropower generator was installed nearby. Her …
Darchula police on Sunday made public two people who were arrested earlier on the charge of wildlife poaching. The accused are Janak Bahadur Shahi, 39, of Jubidha-8, Kalikot and Kalamram Parki, 30, of Sunsera-2, Darchula. They were detained for their involvement in the illegal killing of snow leopard, put in …
Islamabad—The World Bank Group in its recently published report “Pakistan Country Snapshot” has said that the country has made impressive progress in reducing absolute poverty and improving shared prosperity. “The percentage of the population below the national poverty rate has fallen from 34.7 per cent in fiscal year 2002 to …
Mar 14, 2016- The government on Sunday unveiled a 10-year action plan to completely eliminate hunger. Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and World Food Programme Director General José Graziano da Silva jointly released the “National Action Plan on Zero Hunger Initiative in Nepal” (2016-2025) amid a function. Oli said the …
Hundreds of Bangladeshis began a four-day march Thursday from the capital to the Sundarbans in a last-ditch protest against plans to build a coal-fired power plant near the World Heritage-listed forest. Preliminary work has already begun under an Indian-Bangladesh joint venture on the massive plant which will provide much needed …
ISLAMABAD - Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD) Pakistan in collaboration with OXFAM Novib has launched the “Climate Change Portal Pakistan” to disseminate research and sectoral papers on climate change. The portal aims to raise climate change awareness on various themes by publishing materials authored by Pakistani and non-Pakistani researchers/writers. …
Singapore is still the world's most expensive place to live, while China's Hong Kong has moved up seven places in the ranking into joint second place with Zurich, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)'s Worldwide Cost of Living survey released on Thursday. Singapore has the highest score of 116, …
