Book review: Water: Perspectives, Issues, Concerns
This is a work of encyclopaedic scope. The subjects it deals with range from an in-depth study of the treatment of water in the Indian …
Yet another hypothesis to explain decline in vulture population
Another theory has implicated a commonly used veterinary medicine for the large-scale disappearance of vultures from the Indian sub-continent. …
Cockpit
In early December 2007, the country prided itself on providing the world with a road map to check the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5NI.…
Desperate for gas
Gas is the cleanest of fossil fuels and also more efficient and cheaper to use. Yet, in India, there has been no policy focus on this fuel, …
India and Pakistan can future-proof their threatened rivers
Indian Commissioner for Indus Waters is planning to visit Pakistan in March to attend the annual meeting of the Permanent Indus Commission
Loss and damage from climate crisis needs urgent intervention from rich countries: UN chief
Comments in light of Pakistan floods; Guterres urges G20 nations to up climate adaptation financing, emissions reduction targets
Homeless, displaced, devastated: People in Pakistan’s flood-hit Sindh narrate tales of horror & loss
Climate change-induced sea-level rise and heavy downpour behind this unprecendented calamity, say experts
Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal may have plateaued due to uranium shortage: study
Pakistan does not have high grade uranium ore in the country, and its potential uranium reserves are also not very large
Transforming a Karachi slum into a tidy suburb
The success of various programmes initiated under a pilot project in Orangi, a Karachi slum, has inspired its leader to predict the squatter …
Cutting disgrace
Increased demand for timber in Pakistan has prompted poor tribals to sell their trees as a means of generating income
Blasting the tests
Intellectuals, politicians and army officials come under one roof to criticise the nuclear tests of India and Pakistan
Black valley
Experts say that intense shelling during the recent Indo-Pak conflagration in Kargil had a disastrous effect on the environment
Quite disturbing: Pakistan nutrition survey
The Nutrition Section of Pakistan's Planning Commission, working in collaboration with the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund,…
"We have won against the army"
Muhammad Ali Shah has been crusading for the rights of fisherfolk for the past three decades. Presently he heads the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (…
Pakistan elections: health on agenda
Pakistani politicians woo voters with proposals for improvements in country’s healthcare system ahead of polling on Saturday
Blame global warming for Pakistan floods; here’s why
Study finds five-day & 60-day maximum rainfall events this season were once in a 100 years events
Taliban take-over of Afghanistan: India should be a first responder in the humanitarian crisis
The exit of American forces from Afghanistan has underscored the gravity of the new turmoil in India’s neighbourhood. DTE speaks with …
The skyway to disaster
The proposed elevated roadway along the Lyari river bed is expected to worsen the already polluted inner city.
Community welfare works as a contraceptive
In Pakistan, they are controlling population growth by raising the living standards of local communities through Pasbaan, the social …
Building against odds
Despite a host of reasons against its constuction, Pakistan decides to go ahead with building the Diamer dam
No entry to Dutch plant
Pakistan's environmentalists say no to dumping of obsolete and hazardous technology by the West
Pak NGOs under fire
While right-wing religious groups in Pakistan indulge in a hate campaign against voluntary organisations, the military regime looks the other way
Drought across the border
Dams are the talking point in Pakistan where the regions of Sindh and Baluchistan have been hit by drought
International Tiger Day 2023: Yes, tigers did roam Sindh and Bahawalpur once
The tiger is of course extinct in Pakistan but it should be a sobering thought that it has only become so within the last 100 years
Malawi records Africa’s first wild polio virus cases in over 5 years
The case was detected in a three-year-old girl who began showing signs of paralysis from November 19, 2021