India and Pakistan can future-proof their threatened rivers

Indian Commissioner for Indus Waters is planning to visit Pakistan in March to attend the annual meeting of the Permanent Indus Commission

Most expensive disaster in 2022: Hurricane Ian caused losses and damages worth $100bn, says report

Floods in Pakistan, west and southern Africa and drought in Europe also feature in the list of 2022’s most expensive disasters

Is it climate crisis that fuelled flooding in Pakistan?

Sindh and Balochistan provinces of the country have received more rainfall than the historical normal in August

Pakistan floods: What role did climate change play?

Officials from the Pakistan Meteorological Department blamed climate change

Unusually long La Niña displaced record number of people in 2022

In India, disasters were mostly weather-related and displaced 2.5 million people in 2022, according to the Global Report on Internal Displacement

Deluged Pakistan faces significant health threats, WHO warns

Threats include malaria, dengue fever, polio, diarrhoea, COVID-19 and cholera; Maternal health to be affected and domestic violence will rise, UN says

COP27: Global loss and damage assessment needs a major overhaul; here is why

Estimations of loss and damage after weather events do not account for non-economic consequences

Loss and damage from climate crisis needs urgent intervention from rich countries: UN chief

Comments in light of Pakistan floods; Guterres urges G20 nations to up climate adaptation financing, emissions reduction targets

Homeless, displaced, devastated: People in Pakistan’s flood-hit Sindh narrate tales of horror & loss

Climate change-induced sea-level rise and heavy downpour behind this unprecendented calamity, say experts

Loss and damage: 2022 Pakistan floods heighten need for climate reparations

Demands for L&D finance are not treated as humanitarian aid or charity. They are viewed as reparations owed for climate damages. As a result, …

Pakistan braces for more floods

Standing crop over thousands of hectares in the country has been destroyed by the floods that have wreaked havoc in India as well

Blame global warming for Pakistan floods; here’s why

Study finds five-day & 60-day maximum rainfall events this season were once in a 100 years events

Non-communicable diseases rising in Pakistan, finds Lancet

Ischaemic heart disease, stroke, congenital defects, cirrhosis and chronic kidney disease among the 10 leading causes of deaths in 2019