GLOFs pose major threats to people in G-B, Chitral
Steve Cole, Erin Guiltenane In the largest-ever study of glacial lakes, researchers using 30 years of NASA satellite data have
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Disaster
Chitral: Oveer Lasht residents live in constant fear
By Gul Hameed Farooqui A beautiful view of Oveer Lasht Valley in Upper Chitral now facing climate-change-induced danger. Photo by
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Why are glaciers melting at such a rapid rate?
Concerns as glaciers melt in Gilgit-Baltistan. Pakistan is home to more than 7,000 glaciers, but rising global temperatures are causing them to melt rapidly.
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Gilgit-Baltistan and climate change
There is a need to assess these risks and challenges, and their impacts on biodiversity, ecology and human wellbeing of Hindu Kush-Himalaya regions
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Women’s role in ecosystem restoration
by Ali Rehmat Shimshali Have you ever imagined progress of a society, or a nation without women? To answer this
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Disaster risk management: GBDMA role slammed
Media, activists call for creating awareness about disaster risk management, quake-resistance infrastructures; special focus on differently-abled persons needs By Ghulamuddin
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Towards a disaster-resilient Pakistan
By Shafqat Aziz As the world is reeling from the impacts of the pandemic that has devastated economies and killed
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14 members of a family among 19 perish in rain-related incidents in KP
High Asia Herald Two persons were injured after lightning hit two houses in Torghar and Malakand districts News Desk ABBOTTABAD:
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Climate change: floods wash away road in Chitral, a tourist resort in Gojal
Flash floods have destroyed a road infrastructure in Reshun, Upper District of Chitral and a tourist resort in Gojal, upper Hunza District of Gilgit-Baltistan
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Hunza: four more prisoners of conscience freed
GILGIT: Four more prisoners were released from Damas jail in Ghizer District on Friday. According to a notification issued by
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Dream gone sour
by Dr Asim Sajjad MANY regions and peoples in Pakistan are suffering the wrath of what is now an annual
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‘Inequality destroying economies, societies’
Covid-19 has exposed the myth of the neoliberal free-market economic model Herald Report The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
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Punjab: 22 Sikh pilgrims die in train-van crash
Herald Report At least 22 passengers have perished and four others injured after a train hit a van carrying Sikh
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Reconstruction work on Golen water project starts
The reconstruction work started after almost one year since it was damaged by floods in July last year By Gul
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Shisper GLOF damages KKH, Hunza’s Hassanabad village
14 families shifted to safer places, all kinds of vehicular traffic restricted on KKH, administration, disaster management officials put on
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