Tag: Floods

Cloud Burst and Calamities: Exploring Pakistan’s New Environmental Reality

Pakistan is facing a new environmental reality where floods, glacier melts, and devastating cloudbursts are no longer rare but routine. Despite contributing less than 1% of global emissions, the country bears the brunt of climate change, with fragile infrastructure and limited resources leaving millions vulnerable to recurring disasters.

From Disaster to Resilience: Why Pakistan Needs Dams and Flood Canals

Pakistan’s devastating floods have exposed a systemic failure of outdated water infrastructure. Without urgent investment in modern dams, flood canals, and climate adaptation, the country will remain locked in a cycle of annual destruction. Learning from international models and pursuing cooperative management of shared rivers with India is vital to building a secure and resilient future.

Early Warning: Anticipating Floods in Bangladesh

Discover how communities in Bangladesh endure floods, relying on early warnings and anticipatory action for survival.

Climate Change & Food Security in South Asia

According to a recent report by World Food Programme, Pakistan and Afghanistan are identified as high-risk \’hunger hotspots\’ due to extreme droughts triggered by climate change.

COP27: Pakistan Amid Climate Divide

Floods in Pakistan have not only revealed the country\’s extreme vulnerability to climate change but also the great North-South divide whereby the privileged carbon-intensive lifestyles of many in the North have greatly imperiled the relatively disadvantaged South.

Climate Crisis and Floods: Natural Disaster or Own Folies?

Despite the attention the world is now giving to the catastrophic floods in Pakistan, the question of responsibility and early prevention is still not ruled out. Lack of preventive strategies at home and indifference of the global powers to climate change remain the leading factors that brought on this havoc on vulnerable populations.

Climate Change: A New Warfront

Shared tragedies serve as reminders that neighbouring ties between Pakistan and Afghanistan are not only limited to overlapping history and culture but also include the shared habitation of a landscape extremely vulnerable to natural calamities.