カテゴリー: Flooding
International funders join Pakistan PM and UN secretary general in Geneva to agree recovery plan following ‘monsoon on steroids’The international community has promised more than $9bn (£7.4bn) to help Pakistan rebuild after last summer’s catastrophic f…
Climate disasters continue to ravage our country – more international aid is urgently needed to save millions from miseryMuhammad Shehbaz Sharif is the prime minister of PakistanThe apocalyptic rains and floods that hit Pakistan last summer claimed 1,7…
With the deadly devastation fresh in the world’s mind, Pakistan pushed for damage funds with other frontline countriesIn early September, after unprecedented rainfall had left a third of Pakistan under water, its climate change minister set out the cou…
Devastating floods across Pakistan in August and September after several years of high temperatures have left chilli farmers struggling in a country heavily dependent on agriculture, where the flooding is estimated to have caused $40bn worth of damage …
Heavy rains ahead of Storm Nalgae caused flooding and multiple landslides in the southern Philippines, killing dozens of people, a senior government official said on Friday. Authorities have evacuated thousands of people from the path of the …
Photographer Gideon Mendel visited Sindh province in Pakistan after the worst floods in living memory this summer killed more than 1,500 people and left millions homeless.The portraits, part of his Drowning World project, are a powerful reminder of the…
Floods destroyed at least 4m acres of farmland, and with large areas still under water, new crops cannot be sownMuhammad Naeem Khoso lost thousands acres of crops when the torrential downpours that devastated Pakistan in July and August turned his land…
Shehbaz Sharif says he wants ‘climate justice’ from rich polluting countries after monsoons put a third of his country under waterShehbaz Sharif, the prime minister, has said Pakistan should not be forced to go out with a “begging bowl” to rich polluti…
Super Typhoon Noru tore its way out of the northern Philippines on Monday, leaving casualties, floods and power outages. Government work and classes at schools have been suspended in the capital and beyond Continue reading…
Devastating conditions were triggered by heavy monsoon rains that have so far killed more than 1,500 peopleAll four of Haliman’s daughters have fallen sick after she left her flood-ravaged house in her village in Qambar Shahdadkot district in the Sindh…
Pakistan continues to pay in loss and damages for the carbon emissions of others. This must change• Sherry Rehman is Pakistan’s climate change ministerThe climate crisis has accelerated at pace. When temperatures crossed 53C in Pakistan, the summer of …
After record temperatures and drought, swaths of the country lie submerged, symptoms of a climate crisis its people play little part inFarmer Ali Baksh stands on an embankment and points across the flooded landscape of Sindh province towards the spot w…
Study says climate crisis likely to have significantly increased rainfall and made future floods more likelyThe intense rainfall that has caused devastating floods across Pakistan was made worse by global heating, which has also made future floods more…
Heavy rain compounds decades-long environmental catastrophe at country’s largest freshwater lakeMaula Bakhsh Mala’s village was submerged by Lake Manchar for the third time last week. “What bad luck we have,” said the 68-year-old fisher. “When there is…
António Guterres calls for ‘massive financial support’ in wake of disaster that has killed at least 1,391 peopleThe United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, has visited several areas of Pakistan ravaged by floods, as he rounded off a two-day…