Thatta,  January 18: Members of civil society organisations, non-governmental organisations and political leaders have pressed on need to take all-out efforts to launch livelihood development programmes to alleviate poverty in Sindh.

KARACHI: Widow Hoori Fatima, 76, was still struggling with grief over the death of her son Ali Raza, the family’s only breadwinner, in late October.

DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA, December 4: Findings from the most comprehensive assessment to date on climate change, snow and glacier melt in Asia’s mountainous Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region—site of Mount Everest and many …

Tharparkar, Pakistan: Wearing colourful traditional dresses with silver jewellery and bangles on their arms, the women of Tharparkar district look festive. But the empty earthen pots they carry tell a different story.

KARACHI: Climate change threatens to increase hunger and malnutrition among the Pacific region’s poorest people unless there is action soon, says a new report from the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

BADIN: Drabbed in untidy cloths and holding an stick in her left hand Lakshmi Menghwar complains that since rain hit her village in Khoski town of Badin district she and her family is without food, …

CHACHRO/UMERKOT: The current wave of the devastating torrential monsoon rains in Tharparkar district has emerged to be the worst human catastrophe in the desert’s history, rendering hundreds of thousands Tharis displaced and has swept away …

KARACHI: The Sindh Local Government Department has cancelled the Eid holidays of all the officials of concerned civic agencies to avoid possible post-rain water and sewerage problems.

KARACHI: : About 1000 families of Badin were provided emergency food rations to tide them over the Eid holidays. The misery of the rain affected persons in District Badin has been compounded by the second …

KARACHI: Former director general of the Pakistan Meteorological Department and prominent climatologist Dr. Qamar uz Zaman chaudhry has linked the recent devastating flood in southern Sindh districts caused by torrential rains to climate change.