Pakistan, which has contributed just 1% of global carbon emissions, is also the second largest host of refugees globally, its people having sheltered Afghan refugees for over forty years. International humanitarian Angelina Jolie is visiting Pakistan to support communities affected by the devastating floods. Heavy rains and floods across the country have impacted 33 million...
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Why A Boeing 747 Flew 8 Cheetahs From Namibia To India
The event was 70 years in the making. A chartered Boeing 747 landed at the Indian Air Force Station in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh last week. This was no ordinary long-haul flight. The jumbo arrived in South Asia 11 hours after picking up eight cheetahs from Windhoek, Namibia. A long time coming The flight marked a landmark occasion for India....
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Water management needs more than dams
Dams may appear tor make immediate sense, but canalizing all our rivers will not provide permanent protection This may sound ironic, but floods killed hundreds of people in a semi-arid, drought-prone district of Sindh and Balochistan this year. A replete dam usually brings a smile to farmers who begin cultivating paddy because canals provide ample...
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Warming worsened Pakistan floods: study
August rainfall in the Sindh and Balochistan provinces - together nearly the size of Spain - was eight and nearly seven times normal amounts respectively
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Pakistanis Donated $40M to Build a Dam. Their Government Spent $63M On Its Ads.
The magical crowdsourced mega dam was supposed to solve Pakistan’s future flooding and power problems.
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The rise and rise of water desalination in Saudi Arabia
The future of water desalination in Saudi Arabia looks promising and challenging simultaneously Water desalination in Saudi Arabia has doubled over the past decade to reach 2.2 billion cubic meters in 2021, up from 1.1 billion cubic meters per year in 2010, thanks to a major overhaul of some existing plants and the introduction of...
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Pakistan’s first Vertical Forest & Luxury Apartment Complex
Forest V is a switch to sustainable thinking in engineering climate-smart and energy-efficient buildings. The world has changed, warmer by a few degrees and Pakistan needs to urgently rethink the future of real estate and urban planning across the rapid urbanisation currently under way in urban and sub urban cities of Pakistan. Building codes and...
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Pakistan Floods & Climate Security: Rethinking Comprehensive National Security
Pakistan might need to reconsider the way it perceives climate change and climate action on a political level By Ameera Adil, Faraz Haider The ongoing floods in Pakistan devastated communities and the country’s infrastructure and economy. The rising frequency of floods, extreme rainfall, and heatwaves has moved climate change from a theoretical discussion point to a palpable...
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Hundreds of thousands of homes are under water in Sindh province, and locals have no food and say the state has abandoned them
The government and other NGOs, they had collectively managed to reach just 10% or less of affected people.
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Aid pours into Pakistan; deaths from floods cross 1,200 mark
More than 33 million people are affected — one in every seven Pakistanis — and reconstruction work will cost more than $10 billion. Planes carrying fresh supplies are surging across a humanitarian air bridge to flood-ravaged Pakistan as the death toll surged past 1,200, officials said Friday, with families and children at special risk of...
