Plastic pollution plague blights Asia
Kulsum Beghum sorts waste at a landfill in Dhaka. Her blood contains 650 microplastic particles per millilitre, according to an analysis funded by a waste pickers’ union. “Plastic is not…
End the pollution
The theme of today’s World Environment Day 2025 is ‘End Plastic Pollution’. This year, the Republic of Korea will host ‘World Environment Day’ to advocate and urge nations to end…
Pakistan’s deadly air pollution crisis
On November 7, as Pakistan was reeling from days of deadly air pollution, Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz flew to Europe to get medical care for a severe throat infection.…
Diseases and pollution
It has been abnormally hot in the city of Karachi. The daytime temperatures have, at times, been above 40 degrees and the whole city is sizzling. Coupled with it is…
Fiscal pollution
IN some ways, modern Islamabad is akin to 15th-century Ferghana in Central Asia. The novelist Lytton Strachey wrote of the first Mughal emperor Babar, who was born there in an…
Cost of pollution?
OVER the last seven months or so, our daughter has been unwell a number of times. The usual symptoms have been high fever and a cough. A couple of times…
Oil leaks, toxic emissions as Israel strike worsens Yemen pollution: NGOs
The Israeli strike on Yemen’s port of Hodeida has released hazardous emissions and caused fuel spills, experts said, compounding environmental pollution already worsened by oil spills from Huthi ship attacks.…
Climate change, plastic pollution, and waste management
Pakistan is among the top-ten climate change vulnerable country. Global warming needs to be controlled, and a desirable target in this regard globally is considered to be 1.5°C, beyond which…
The health toll of air pollution
One thing which still remains binding between Pakistan and India and reminds us of each other is the weather and the atmospheric environment and its consequences on both sides of the…
Pollution in the air
Every day, thousands of drivers are forced to idle needlessly on the roads of the federal capital in the name of ‘security’. Indeed, security in and of itself is important.…
