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The deadly Bhotekoshi disaster was not a conventional flood but a rapid cascade of collapsing rock, glacier ice, debris and water. Scientists say the event exposes a difficult reality for the Himalayas: climate adaptation must prepare for hazards that are becoming more complex, faster-moving and increasingly difficult to predict.
When floods destroyed the latrine in Rozina's home in Bannu, menstruation became a crisis of privacy, health and dignity. Her experience reveals how Pakistan's disaster response continues to overlook the basic needs of women during climate-driven displacement.
Europe’s intensifying heatwaves are challenging the assumption that wealth, technology and strong infrastructure can insulate societies from climate change. Climate vulnerability is becoming universal, even if climate resilience is not.
Pakistan is often described as a water-scarce country, but the real crisis runs much deeper. This article explains why poor water management, inefficient agriculture, groundwater depletion, pollution and climate change together are reshaping the country's water future and why finding more water alone will not solve the problem.
As the Hindu Kush Himalaya warms nearly three times faster than the global average, communities in Gilgit-Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa live with the growing risk of sudden, destructive glacial lake outburst floods.
Electric vehicles are a real climate solution, but they were never the whole climate story. This article examines how public climate debate often focuses on visible emissions, such as petrol cars, while less visible sources of energy demand receive quieter scrutiny. For Pakistan and other developing countries, the lesson is not to reject global climate solutions, but to ask whether they fit local realities.
Pakistan’s demand for climate justice remains valid, but climate responsibility must also begin at home. This editorial argues that weak governance, poor planning, environmental neglect, and institutional failure are making the country more vulnerable and that domestic reform is essential to credible climate action.
Climate policy often changes with elections, budgets and political pressure, but climate impacts continue to build through heat, floods, water stress, crop damage and infrastructure strain. This editorial explains why unstable climate policy makes long term planning harder for farmers, cities, investors and vulnerable countries such as Pakistan.
Islamabad and Rawalpindi’s rapid real-estate expansion has turned open land, vegetation and natural recharge zones into concrete. Research shows the twin cities are becoming hotter, more water-stressed and more flood-prone as built-up areas expand, groundwater falls and urban heat island effects intensify.
