Asif Mehmood discusses the critical mission of planting Miyawaki urban forests to combat climate change, severe air pollution, and rapidly rising temperatures in Pakistan.
How the devastating 2022 monsoon floods upended millions of young lives across Pakistan, trading classrooms for child labor and forced marriages.
One year after deluge, many families remain trapped in cycle of poverty, debt and uncertainty
Asif Mehmood discusses the critical mission of planting Miyawaki urban forests to combat climate change, severe air pollution, and rapidly rising temperatures in Pakistan.
Once celebrated for its four distinct seasons, Lahore now alternates between suffocating smog and extreme heat. With tree cover down 70% and green spaces down to just 2.8%, urban expansion is turning the city into a concrete furnace.
A 25-year NASA satellite analysis by WWF-Pakistan reveals built-up concrete areas are warming 42% faster than green spaces, sharply intensifying the city's urban heat island effect.
Asif Mehmood discusses the critical mission of planting Miyawaki urban forests to combat climate change, severe air pollution, and rapidly rising temperatures in Pakistan.
Hundreds of young men take risks to migrate for a better life. Dunki – often referred to as the "donkey route" – is an illicit method of clandestine migration where individuals attempt to enter Western nations like the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia by weaving through a complex chain of multiple transit countries. Driven by the pursuit of better economic opportunities, migrants often rely on underground networks of human smugglers who orchestrate these hazardous journeys using circuitous legal and illegal stopovers, exposing travellers to extreme physical perils and severe legal consequences.
موسم اب صرف موسم نہیں رہا، بلکہ دنیا کے مستقبل، معیشت اور انسانی زندگی کا ایک بڑا سوال بن چکا ہے۔ بڑھتا ہوا درجہ حرارت، شدید گرمی، بے وقت بارشیں، سیلاب اور خشک سالی دنیا کے مختلف خطوں کو مسلسل متاثر کر رہے ہیں۔ موسمیاتی تبدیلی کے ان اثرات میں قدرتی موسمی مظاہر، خصوصاً ال نینو، ایک نئے خطرے کے طور پر سامنے آ رہے ہیں۔ ماہرین کے مطابق گلوبل وارمنگ اور ال نینو کا امتزاج آنے والے برسوں میں موسمی شدت اور غذائی عدم تحفظ کو مزید بڑھا سکتا ہے۔
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