Heatwave batters Spain’s Mediterranean mussel crop
“There’s nothing left here,” sighs Javier Franch as he shakes the heavy rope of mussels he’s just pulled to the surface in northeastern Spain. They are all dead. With the…
To keep climate ambition alive
The year 2025 was meant to be a year of renewed climate ambition. The world had a roadmap with the third round of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) due and COP30…
Hurting hydropower and cotton
Pakistan and India sprang from the same subcontinent, sharing rivers, soil, and memory. Yet for 78 years since partition, these nuclear-armed neighbors have drifted to opposite shores, their estrangement deepening…
Fire and attraction
PEACENIKS on both sides of the Radcliffe Line are eating humble pie; the warmongers radiate with their ‘told-you-so’ glow. Journalistic neutrality has been thrown to the winds; anchors, reporters and…
Budget 2025-26 from a climate lens
By any measure, Pakistan’s federal budget for FY2025-26 represents a notable evolution in the country's approach to climate change. For a country that has endured some of the most brutal…
Stolen spring
AROUND the world, spring brings with it a mild sun and flowers in bloom. But in Karachi, in fact in much of Pakistan, the reality of a false spring is…
Class, nation, empire
LABOUR Day, an occasion steeped in great significance, synonymous with working class politics as well as the historic struggles of colonised peoples to free themselves from imperial servitude, will pass…
A highly flammable summer
It was the biggest mystery. For months, since the economy started to slide into an entirely predictable and avoidable crisis, well to do Pakistanis would cite restaurant traffic and the…
Extreme heat
According to a recent Business Insider article: Birds Are Falling From the Sky in India as a Record Heatwave Dries up Water Sources, May 14, 2022. And, it’s not just…
Apocalyptic threat
A letter from the civil society campaign to Brown sent in April read: “In September, as you welcome the world to San Francisco for the Global Climate Action Summit, you…
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