Extreme weather

Climate crisisEnvironmentExtreme weatherFloodingGlobal developmentHumanitarian responsePakistanSouth and Central AsiaUK newsWorld news

Urgent aid appeal launched as satellite images show a third of Pakistan underwater

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…

Read More
Access to waterAidEnvironmentExtreme weatherFloodingGlobal developmentHealthHumanitarian responseInternally displaced peoplePakistanSocietySouth and Central AsiaWorld Health OrganizationWorld news

Health officials warn of major outbreaks of disease after severe floods in Pakistan

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 …

Read More
EnvironmentExtreme weatherFloodingGlobal developmentHumanitarian responsePakistanSouth and Central AsiaWorld news

‘Just a pile of mud’: Pakistani floods force family to rebuild home again

As well as losing livestock and crops, villagers must rebuild homes for a second time after floods destroyed them in 2010Ghulam Kubra and her family escaped from their home 30 minutes before the roof collapsed. Fifteen days ago, the mother of four watc…

Read More
Climate crisisEnvironmentExtreme weatherFloodingPakistanSouth and Central AsiaUnited NationsWorld news

Pakistan not to blame for climate crisis-fuelled flooding, says PM Shehbaz Sharif

Sharif’s climate change minister called the flooding a ‘climate catastrophe’ and said the south Asian nation was ‘paying the price’ for western use of fossil fuelsPakistan is not to blame for a climate crisis-fuelled disaster that has flooded much of t…

Read More
PAGE TOP