カテゴリー: Flooding
Countries most responsible for climate crisis must ‘end war with nature’, says António GuterresThe UN secretary-general, António Guterres, has said the world owes impoverished Pakistan “massive” help in recovering from the summer’s devastating floods b…
The recent flooding is a direct result of a climate crisis fuelled by the global north. We must accept the blame and pay up, says Christopher Tanner Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar’s article (Rich countries caused Pakistan’s catastrophic flooding. Their response…
Those who don’t die from the floods risk death by starvation – yet you’ve probably heard little about the devastationToday, Pakistan, the world’s fifth-most-populous country, is fighting for its survival. This summer, erratic monsoon rains battered the…
Hundreds of patients overwhelmed a hospital in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province as the country continues to grapple with debilitating floods caused by heavy monsoon rains. Staff at Civil hospital in Dadu city say they have receive…
Hundreds of thousands of homes are under water in Sindh province. Locals have no food and say the state has abandoned themAfter several attempts, Zameer Ali, his son and his brother were finally heaved on to the deck of a wooden boat.Early that morning…
Lake Manchar on verge of causing more flooding, says local official, as third of country already underwaterPakistan’s biggest lake is on the verge of bursting its banks after attempts by authorities to drain it in a controlled way failed, a senior loca…
If Cop27 fails to bring the major polluters to heel, the global south will be forced to act on its ownMustafa Nawaz Khokar is a senator in PakistanWhat we’ve witnessed this summer in Pakistan is nothing short of a climate catastrophe. First came the ea…
Up to 100,000 people will be displaced from homes by Lake Manchar after waters reached dangerous levelsAuthorities in flood-hit Pakistan have breached the country’s largest freshwater lake, displacing up to 100,000 people from their homes but saving mo…
Sherry Rehman, the country’s climate change minister, insists rich polluters must pay their due as country is deluded by devastating floodsRich polluting countries which are predominantly to blame for the “dystopian” climate breakdown have broken their…
Unprecedented flooding in the country during monsoon season has left at least 1,265 people dead Pakistan has appealed to the international community for an “immense humanitarian response” to unprecedented flooding that has left at least 1,265 people de…
Planes bring food, medicine and tents to disaster zone, with officials blaming floods on climate changePlanes carrying fresh supplies are forming a humanitarian air bridge to flood-ravaged Pakistan as the death toll passed 1,200, officials have said w…
It is the third straight year Aotearoa has broken the heat record, while sea surface temperatures were also the warmest everNew Zealand has had its warmest and wettest winter on record, with one meteorologist describing it as “mother nature’s way of ex…
Humanitarian workers expect conditions to worsen as monsoon rains continue and say millions face a terrible winterAid workers have appealed for urgent donations to fight the “absolutely devastating” impact of flooding in Pakistan, as new satellite imag…
Disasters and Emergency Committee urges British public to give whatever they canAn urgent appeal has been launched by the Disasters Emergency Committee for donations in Pakistan, where at least 1,000 people have been killed by floods described as the w…
Diarrhoea and malaria cases spread, with risk of dysentery and cholera, as millions of displaced people forced to drink flood waterHealth officials have warned of large-scale outbreaks of disease in Pakistan after severe flooding displaced millions of …