Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by FARMER Ben
Experts fear Jacobabad’s extreme heat and humidity may worsen with climate change – and that other cities may join the club.
When the full midsummer heat hits Jacobabad, the city retreats inside as if sheltering from attack.
The streets are deserted and residents hunker down as best they can to (...)
, by ABBAS Hassan, HUSSAIN Asghar
In their natural state, the rivers of the Indus basin have four distinct mechanisms of water supply — snowmelt, glacial melt, rains and groundwater seepage. Snowmelt starts adding water to the tributaries of the Indus in March and April. By the time the snowmelt wanes, glacial melt kicks in in (...)
, by JAN Ammar Ali
The week from September 20 till September 27 has been designated as the week of the ‘Climate Strike’. It is an unprecedented event in its ambition to disrupt business as usual.
Over 2600 events are taking place around the globe to demand that world leaders pay attention to the looming climate (...)
, by Reuters
KARACHI: As shopkeeper Ali Akbar went to open his store last week along the main street of Thatta, he found himself wading through a sea of people who had blocked the road, causing an enormous traffic jam.
It wasn’t a political rally the normal cause of such crowds. It was people without water. (...)
, by SHEIKH Ali Tauqeer
What are global climate challenges and how will Pakistan respond to them?
GLOBAL CLIMATE TALKS LINK ACTION TO FINANCE
BONN: A week into the UN climate change conference – also known as the COP23 — in Bonn, Germany, gruelling discussions on raising climate finance started on Tuesday.
Developing (...)
, by JAN Ammar Ali
One of the most important advances in academic work in recent years has been the focus on ecology as a social, economic and political category. Society is no longer viewed as a set of complementary and conflictual relations between human beings. Social theory now acknowledges the material basis (...)
, by NAYYAR A.H.
Karachi Nuclear Power Plant (KANUPP) is now forty years old. It is rated among the worst functioning reactors of the world. Situated on the Arabian Sea, it was originally far away from populated areas of Karachi, but now many residential schemes have moved close to it. The reactors at Chashma (...)
, by BALOCH Latif, BALOCH Shafi, Correspondent(s), SHAH Mohammad Ali
National Conference on Indus Delta with the theme of Release of water to downstream Kotri. On 19th January, 2009. At hotel Regent Plaza Karachi.
In conference decided that Struggle for New Water Paradigm in Pakistan. Unanimously agreed to form a New Water paradigm Commission of Pakistan. (...)
, by Collective
• We, the participants representing civil society, NGOS, water experts, researchers, activists, environmentalists, politicians and deltaic and fishing communities from across the country, which have concern regarding the depletion of Indus Delta, having gathered at National conference on Indus (...)
, by TARIQ Farooq
Labour Party Pakistan welcomes the shelving of controversial Kalabagh Dam project by the government of Pakistan Peoples Party. Farooq Tariq spokesperson LPP said in a press statement. “The struggle against Kalabagh dam has won a decisive victory; it was never a project for people’s welfare. It (...)
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